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WORKS 

O  F     T  H  E 

ENGLISH     POETS. 

WITH 

I      P   ^R     E     F     A     C     E     S, 

BIOGRAPHICAL     AND    CRITICAL, 

BY    SAMUEL    JOHNSON. 


TOLUME    THE    TWENTY-THIRD 


LONDON 


PRINTED      BY      H,      BALDWIN 


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OR  J.  AUCKLAND,    J.  RIVINGTON    AND  SONS,    T.  PAYNE    AND 
SON,  L.  DAVIS,     B.  WHITE   AND   SON,     T.  LONGMAN,    B.  LAW 
J.  DODSLEY,  H.  BALDWIN,   J.  ROBSON,  C.  DILLY,   T.  CADELL 
J.    NICHOLS,       J.     JOHNSON,        G.     G.    J.     AND       J.   ROBINSON 
K.     BALDWIN,       M.     r.     GARDNER,      P.     ELMSLY,      T.     EVANS 
G.    NICOL,      LEIGH     AND     SOTHEBY,      J.    BEW,      N.    CONANT 
J.  MURRAY,  J.   SEWELL,    W.   GOLDSMITH,    W.RICHARDSON 
T.  VERNOR,     W.LOWNDES,     W.  BENT,  W.    OTRIDGE,    T.AND 
J.  ECERTON,    S.   HAYES,    R.    FAULDER,  J.  EDWARDS,    G.  AND 
T.  WILKIE,    W.  NICOLL,    OGILVY   AND   SPEARE,     SCATCHERD 
AND   WHITAKER,   W.  FOX,  C.  STALKER,  E.NEWBERY,    I79C. 


THE 
TWENTY-THIRD    VOLUME 

OF     THE 

ENGLISH     POETS; 

CONTAINING 
THE    SECOND   VOLUME    OF 

DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 


Vol.  XXIII. 


THE 

WORKS 

O  F 

V  I  R  G  I  L. 

VOLUME    XXIIL 


THE 


SECOND        BOOK 


OF     THE 


JE  N  E 


THE    ARGUMENT. 

^neas  relates  how  the  city  of  Troy  was  taken,  after 
a  ten  years  fiege^  by  the  treachery  of  Sinon,  and  the 
flratagem  of  a  wooden  horfe.  He  declares  the  fixed 
refolution  he  had  taken,  not  to  furvive  the  ruins  of 
his  country,  and  the  various  adventures  he  met  with 
in  the  defence  of  it :  at  laft,  having  been  before  ad- 
vifed  by  He(f\or's  ghoft,  and  now  by  the  appearance 
of  his  mother  Venus,  he  is  prevailed  upon  to  leave 
the  town,  and  fettle  his  houfhold  gods  in  another 
country.  In  order  to  tliis,  he  carries  oiF  his  father 
on  his  ihoulders,  and  leads  his  little  fon  by  the  hand, 
his  wife  following  him  behind.  When  he  comes  to 
the  place  appointed  for  the  general  rendezvous,  he 
finds  a  great  confluence  of  people,  but  mififes  his 
wife,  whofe  ghoft  afterwards  appears  to  him,  and 
tells  him  the  land  which  was  defigned  for  him. 

Vol.  XXIII,  B  ALL 


s  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

ALL  were  attentive  to  the  god-like  man. 
When,  from  his  lofty  couch,  he  thus  began: 
Great  queen!  what  you  command  me  to  relate^ 
Renews  the  fad  remembrance  of  our  fate. 
An  empire  from  its  old  foundations  rent,  5 

And  every  woe  the  Trojans  underwent: 
A  peopled  city  made  a  defert  place; 
All  that  I  faw,  and  part  of  which  I  was : 
Not  ev'n  the  hardeft  of  our  foes  could  hear. 
Nor  Hern  Ulyffes  tell  without  a  tear.  I O 

And  now  the  latter  watch  of  wafting  night. 
And  fetting  ftars,  to  kindly  reft  invite. 
But,  fince  you  take  fuch  intereft  in  our  woe. 
And  Troy's  difaftrous  end  deiire  to  know, 
I  will  reftrain  my  tears,  and  briefly  tell  1^ 

What  in  our  laft  and  fatal  night  befel. 

By  deftiny  compell'd,  and  in  defpair. 
The  Greeks  grew  weary  of  the  tedious  war : 
And,  by  Minerva's  aid,  a  fabric  rear'd. 
Which,  like  a  fteed  of  monftrous  height,  appear'd;    20 
The  ftdes  were  plank'd  with  pine,  they  feign'd  it  made 
For  their  return,  and  this  the  vow  they  paid. 
Thus  they  pretend ;  but  in  the  hollow  ftde 
Seleded  numbers  of  their  foldiers  hide : 
With  inward  arms  the  dire  machine  they  load,         25 
And  iron  bowels  ftuff  the  dark  abode. 
In  fight  of  Troy  lies  Tenedos,  an  ifle 
I  While  fortune  did  on  Priam's  empire  fmile) 

Renown 'd 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    ir.  3 

Renowii'd  for  wealth ;  but  fince  a  faithlefs  bay, 

"Where  {hips  expos'd  to  winds  and  weather  lay.         30 

There  was  their  fleet  conceal'd :  we  thought  for  Greece 

The  fails  were  hoifted,  and  our  fears  releafe. 

The  Trojans,  coop'd  within  their  walls  fo  long. 

Unbar  their  gates,  and  iffue  in  a  throng. 

Like  fwarming  bees,  and,  with  delight,  furvey        33; 

The  camp  deferred  ^vhere  the  Grecians  lay: 

The  quarters  of  the  feveral  chiefs  they  fliow'd,  "l 

Here  Phoenix,  here  Achilles  made  abode,  > 

Here  join'd  the  battles,  there  the  navy  rode.  J 

Part  on  the  pile  their  wondering  eyes  employ  40 

(The  pile  by  Pallas  rais'd  to  ruin  Troy). 

Thymstes  firfl  ('tis  doubtful  whether  hir'd. 

Or  fo  the  Trojan  deftiny  required) 

Mov'd  that  the  ramparts  might  be  broken  down, 

To  lodge  the  monfter  fabric  in  the  town.  45 

But  Capys,  and  the  reft  of  founder  mind. 

The  fatal  prefent  to  the  flames  defign'd ; 

Or  to  the  watery  deep  :  at  leaft  to  bore 

The  hollow  fides,  and  hidden  frauds  explore: 

The  giddy  vulgar,  as  their  fancies  guide,  50 

With  noife  fay  nothing,   and  in  parts  divide. 

Laocoon,  followed  by  a  numerous  crowd. 

Ran  from  the  fort;  and  cry'd,  from  far,  aloud; 

O  wretched  countrymen!  v»hat  fury  reigns  ? 

W^hat  more  than  madnefs  has  poflTefs'd  your  brains? 

Think  you  the  Grecians  from  your  coafls  are  gone. 
And  are  UlyiTes'  arts  no  better  known  ,^ 

B  2  This 


4  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

This  hollow  fabric  either  muft  inclofe. 

Within  its  blind  recefs,  our  fee  ret  foes; 

Gr  'tis  an  enorine  rais'd  above  the  town,  60 

T'  o'erlook  the  walls,  and  then  to  batter  down. 

Somewhat  is  fure  defign'd;  by  fraud  or  force; 

Truft  not  their  prefents,  nor  admit  the  horfe. 

Thus  having  faid,  againft  the  fteed  he  threw 

His  forceful  fpear,  which,  hifling  as  it  flew,  65 

Pierc'd  through  the  yielding  planks  of  jointed  wood. 

And  trembling  in  the  hollow  belly  flood. 

The  fides  tranfpierc'd  return  a  rattling  found. 

And  groans  of  Greeks  inclos'd  come  iffuing  through 

the  wound. 
And  had  not  heaven  the  fall  of  Troy  defign'd,      70  t 
Or  had  not  men  been  fated  to  be  blind,  > 

Enough  was  faid  and  done,  t'  infpire  a  better  mind :  J 
Then  had  our  lances  pierc'd  the  treacherous  wood. 
And  Illian  towers  and  Priam's  empire  flood. 
Mean  time,  with  fhouts,  the  Trojan  fhepherds  bring 
A  captive  Greek  in  bands,  before  the  king: 
Taken,   to  take;  who  m.ade  himfelf  their  prey, 
T'  impofe  on  their  belief,  and  Troy  betray, 
Fix'd  on  his  aim,  and  obflinately  bent 
To  die  undaunted,  or  to  circumvent.  80 

About  the  captive,  tides  of  Trojans  flow; 
All  prefs  to  fee,  and  fome  infult  the  foe. 
Kow  hear  how  well  the  Greeks  their  wiles  difguis'd. 
Behold  a  nation  in  a  man  compris'd. 
Trembling  the  mifcreant  flood,  unarm'd  and  bound; 
He  flar'd,  and  roU'd  his  hagard  eyes  around; 

Then 


i5:  N  E  I  8.     B  O  O  K    ir.  5 

Then  faid,  Alas !  what  earth  remains,  what  fea 

Is  open  to  receive  unhappy  me! 

What  fate  a  wretched  fugitive  attends, 

Scorn"d  by  my  foes,  abandon'd  by  my  friends!         90 

He  faid,  and  figh'd,  and  caft  a  raeful  eye: 

Our  pity  kindles,  and  our  paflions  die* 

We  chear  the  youth  to  make  his  own  defence. 

And  freely  tell  us  what  he  was,  and  whence: 

What  news  he  could  impart,  we  long  to  know,        95 

And  what  to  credit  from  a  captive  foe. 

His  fear  at  length  difmifs'd,  he  faid,  whate'er 
My  fafe  ordains,  my  words  fhall  be  lincere: 
I  neither  can,  nor  dare,  my  birth  difclaim; 
Greece  is  my  country,  Sinon  is  my  name:  100 

Though  plung'd  by  fortune's  power  in  mifery, 
'Tis  not  in  fortune's  power  to  make  me  lye. 
If  any  chance  has  hither  brought  the  name 
Of  Palamedes,  not  unknown  to  fame. 
Who  fufFer'd  from  the  malice  of  the  times  |  105 

Accus'd  and  fentenc'd  for  pretended  crimes: 
Becaufe  the  fatal  wars  he  would  prevent ; 
Whofe  death  the  wretched  Greeks  too  late  lament; 
Me,  then  a  boy,  my  father,  poor  and  bare 
Of  other  means,  committed  to  his  care:  no 

His  kinfman  and  companion  in  the  war. 
While  fortune  favour'd,  while  his  arms  fupport 
The  caufe,  and  rul'd  the  counfels  of  the  court, 
I  made  fome  figure  there;  nor  was  my  name 
Obfcure,  nor  I  without  my  (hare  of  fame.  i  r  5 

B  3  But 


} 


} 


6  DRYDEN'S    VIRGI2U 

But  when  Ulyffes,  with  f^illacious  arts. 
Had  made  impreffion  in  the  peoples'  hearts; 
And  forg'd  a  treafon  in  my  patron's  name 
(I  fpeak  of  things  too  far  divulg'd  by  fame). 
My  kinfman  fell  I  then  I,  without  fupport,  120 

In  private  mourn'd  his  lofs,  and  left  the  court. 
Mad  as  I  was,  I  could  not  bear  his  fate 
With  filent  grief,  but  loudly  blam'd  the  ftate : 
And  curs'd  the  direful  author  of  my  woes. 
'Twas  told  again,  and  hence  my  ruin  rofe,  123; 

I  threaten'd,  if  indulgent  heaven  once  more 
Would  land  me  fafely  on  my  native  (hore. 
His  death  with  double  vengeance  to  reftore. 
Tliis  mov'd  the  murderer's  hate,  and  foon  enfu'd 
Th'  effefts  of  malice  from  a  man  fo  proud.  130 

Ambiguous  rumours  through  the  camp  he  fpread. 
And  fought,  by  treafon,  my  devoted  head: 
Kew  crimes  invented,  left  untum'd  no  ftone. 
To  make  my  guilt  appear,  and  hide  his  own. 
Till  Calchas  was  by  force  and  threatening  wrought  s 
But  why— why  dwell  I  on  that  anxious  thought? 
If  on  my  nation  jull  revenge  you  feek. 
And  'tis  t'  appear  a  foe,  t'  appear  a  Greek; 
Already  you  my  name  and  countr)'  know, 
Affuage  your  thirft  of  blood,  and  ftrike  the  blow :    1 40 
My  death  will  both  the  kingly  brothers  pleafe. 
And  fet  infatiate  Ithacus  at  eafe. 
This  fair  unfiniih'd  tale,  thefe  broken  Harts, 
Rais'd  expectations  in  our  longing  hearts; 
Unknowing  as  we  were  in  Grecian  arts,  145 . 

5  His 


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His  former  trenDiing  once  again  renew 'd. 
With  a(fl;e(i  fear,  the  villain  thus  purfa'd: 

Long  had  the  Grecians  (tir'd  with  fruitlefs  care. 
And*' weary 'd  with  an  unfuccefsful  war) 
Kefolv'd  to  raife  the  fiege,  and  leave  the  town;       150 
And,  had  the  gods  permitted,  thev  had  gone. 
But  oft  the  winter}'  feas  and  fouthern  winds 
Withftood  their  pafTage  home,  and  chang'd  their  minds. 
Portents  and  prodigies  their  fouls  amaz'd; 
But  moil,  when  this  llupendous  pile  was  rais'd:      15^ 
Then  flaming  meteors,  hung  in  air,  were  feen. 
And  thunders  rattled  through  a  Iky  ferene : 
Difmay'd,  and  fearful  of  fome  dire  event, 
Eurypylus,  t' enquire  their  fate,  v/as  fent; 
He  from  the  gods  this  dreadful  anfwer  brought;  1 60 
O  Grecians!  when  the  Trojan  fnores  you  fought. 
Your  pafTage  with  a  virgin's  blood  was  bought! 
So  muft  your  fafe  return  be  bought  again. 
And  Grecian  blood  once  more  atone  the  main! 
The  fpreading  rumour  round  the  people  ran;  16^ 

All  fear'd,  and  each  believ'd  himfelf  the  man, 
UlyfTes  took  th'  advantage  of  their  fright ; 
Call'd  Calchas,  and  produc'd  in  open  fight: 
Then  bade  him  name  the  wretch,  ordain'd  by  fate 
The  public  viclim,  to  redeem  the  flate,  l^O 

Already  fome  prefag'd  the  dire  event. 
And  faw  what  facrifice  UlyfTes  meant. 
For  twice  five  da}s  the  good  old  feer  withflood 
1'he  intended  treafon,  and  was  dumb  to  blood, 

B  4  Till, 


} 


S  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

Till,  tir'd  with  endlefs  clamours,  and  purfuit         i"^ 

Of  Ithacus,  he  ftood  no  longer  mute: 

But,  as  it  was  agreed,  pronounc'd  that  I 

Was  defiin'd  by  the  wrathful  gods  to  die! 

All  prais'd  the  fentence,  pleas 'd  the  fiorm  ftiould  fall 

On  one  alone,  whofe  fury  threatened  all.  i8o 

The  difmal  day  was  come,  the  priefts  prepare 

Their  leaven'd  cakes,  and  fillets  for  my  hair. 

I  followed  nature's  laws,  and  muft  avow 

I  broke  my  bonds,  and  fled  the  fatal  blow. 

Hid  in  a  weedy  lake  all  night  I  lay,  1 8^ 

Secure  of  fafety  when  they  fail'd  away. 

But  now  what  further  hopes  for  me  remain. 

To  fee  my  friends  or  native  foil  again  ? 

My  tender  infants,  or  my  careful  fire. 

Whom  they  returning  will  to  death  require?  190 

Will  perpetrate  on  them  their  firll  defign. 

And  take  the  forfeit  of  their  heads  for  mine! 

Which,  O,  if  pity  m.ortal  minds  can  move. 

If  there  be  faith  below,  or  gods  above. 

If  innocence  and  truth  can  claim  defert,  1 95* 

Ye  Trojans,  from  an  injur'd  wretch  avert. 

Falfe  tears  true  pity  move :  the  king  com.mands 

To  loofe  his  fetters,  and  unbind  his  hands : 

Then  adds  thefe  friendly  words;  Difmifs  thy  fears. 

Forget  the  Greeks,  be  mine  as  thou  wert  theirs:     200 

But  truly  tell,  was  it  for  force  or  guile. 

Or  fome  religious  end,  you  rais'd  this  pile 

Thus  faid  the  king.     He,  full  of  fraudful  arts. 

This  well-invented  tale  for  truth  imparts : 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    IT.  f 

Ye  lamps  of  heaven!  he  faid,  and  lifted  high         205 

His  hands  now  free,  thou  venerable  Iky, 

Inviolable  powers,  ador'd  with  dread,  '\ 

Ye  fatal  fillets,  that  once  bound  this  head,  I 

Ye  facred  altars,  from  whofe  flames  I  fled,  J 

Be  all  of  you  abjur'd;  and  grant  I  may,  210 

Without  a  crime,  th'  ungrateful  Greeks  betray! 

Reveal  the  fecrets  of  the  guilty  ftate. 

And  juftly  punifh  whom  I  juftly  hate! 

But  you,  O  king!  preferve  the  faith  you  gave. 

If  I,  to  fave  myfelf,  your  empire  fave.  2 1  r 

The  Grecian  hopes,  and  all  th"  attempts  they  made. 

Were  only  founded  on  Minerva's  aid. 

But  from  the  time  when  impious  Diomede, 

And  falfe  Ulyfl^es,  that  inventive  head. 

Her  fatal  image  from  the  temple  drew,  220 

The  fleeping  guardians  of  the  caftle  flew. 

Her  virgin  ftatue  with  their  bloody  hands 

Polluted,  and  profan'd  her  holy  bands ; 

From  thence  the  tide  of  fortune  left  their  fhore. 

And  ebb'd  much  fafter  than  it  flow'd  before :  22 ; 

Their  courage  languifli'd,  as  their  hopes  decay'dj 

And  Pallas,  now  averfe,  refus'd  her  aid. 

Nor  did  the  goddefs  doubtfully  declare 

Her  alter'd  mind,  and  alienated  care : 

When  firft  her  fatal  image  touch'd  the  ground,        23^ 

She  fl:ernly  caft  her  glaring  eyes  around ; 

That  fparkled  as  they  roll'd,  and  feem'd  to  threat: 

Her  heavenly  limbs  diftill'd  a  briny  fweat^ 

Thrice 


10  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Thrice  from  the  ground  Hie  leap'd,  was  feen  to  wield 

Herbrandifli'd  lance,  and  fhake  her  horrid  fhield!  235 

Then  Calchas  bade  our  hoft  for  flight  prepare. 

And  hope  no  conqueft  from  the  tedious  war : 

Till  firft  they  fail'd  for  Greece;  with  prayers  befought 

Her  injur'd  power,  and  better  omens  brought. 

And  now  their  navy  ploughs  the  watery  main,    240 "] 

Yet,  focn  expedt  it  on  your  fhores  again,  >■ 

With  Pallas  pleas'd;  as  Calchas  did  ordain.  J 

Bat  firft,  to  reconcile  the  blue-ey'd  maid. 

For  her  ftolen  ftatue,  and  her  tower  betray 'd; 

Warn'd  by  the  feer,  to  her  offended  name  245 

We  rais'd,  and  dedicate  this  wondrous  frame : 

So  lofty,  left  through  your  forbidden  gates 

It  pafs,  and  intercept  our  better  fates. 

For,  once  admitted  there,  our  hopes  are  loftj 

And  Troy  may  then  a  new  Palladium  boaft.  2j^o 

For  fo  religion  and  the  gods  ordain; 

That  if  you  violate  with  hands  profane 

Minerva's  gift,  your  town  in  flames  fnall  burn, 

(Which  omen,  O  ye  gods,  on  Graecia  turn]! 

But  if  it  climb,  with  your  affifting  hands,  25^ 

The  Trojan  walls,,  and  in  the  city  ftands. 

Then  Troy  fhall  Argos  and  Mycenae  burn. 

And  the  reverfe  of  fate  on  us  return. 

With  fuch  deceits  he  gain'd  their  eafy  hearts. 
Too  prone  to  credit  his  perfidious  arts,  260 

What  Diomede,  nor  Thetis'  greater  fon, 
A  thoufand  fhips,  nor  ten  years  fiege  had  done : 
Falfe  tears  and  fawning  words  the  city  won. 


} 


A  greater 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    ir.  It 

A  greater  omen,  and  of  worfe  portent,  -j 

Did  our  unwary  minds  with  fear  torment:  ^^S  t 

Concurring  to  produce  the  dire  event.  J 

Laocoon,  Neptune's  prieft  by  lot  that  year. 
With  folemn  pomp  then  facrihc'd  a  fteer. 
When,  dreadful  to  behold,  from  fea  we  fpy'd  -v 

Two  ferpents  rank'd  abreaft,  the  feas  divide,      270  >• 
And  fmoothly  fweep  along  the  fwelling  tide.  J 

Their  flaming  creds  above  the  waves  they  {how. 
Their  bellies  feem  to  burn  the  feas  below : 
Their  fpeckled  tails  advance  to  fteer  their  courfe. 
And,  on  the  founding  fhore,  the  flying  billows  force. 
And  now  the  ftrand,  and  now  the  plain  they  held. 
Their  ardent  eyes  with  bloody  ftreaks  were  fill'd  : 
Their  nim.ble  tongues  they  brandifli'd  as  they  came. 
And  lick'd  their  hifling  jaws  that  fputter'd  flame. 
We  fled  amaz'd;  their  deftin'd  way  they  take,         280 
And  to  Laocoon  and  his  children  make : 
And  firft  around  the  tender  boys  they  wind. 
Then  with  their  fliarpen'd  fangs  their  limbs  and  bodies 

grind. 
The  wretched  father,  running  to  their  aid 
With  pious  hafte,  but  vain,  they  next  invade :         28^^ 
Twice  round  his  waiil  their  winding:  volumes  roll'd. 
And  twice  about  his  gafping  throat  they  fold. 
The  prieft,  thus  doubly  chok'd,  their  crefts  divide. 
And,  towering  o'er  his  head,  in  triumph  ride. 
With  both  his  hands  he  labours  at  the  knots,  29a 

His  holy  fillets  the  blue  venom  blots : 

His 


33  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

His  roaring  fills  the  flitting  air  around. 

Tlius,  when  an  ox  receives  a  glancing  wound^ 

He  breaks  his  bands,  the  fatal  altar  flies. 

And,  with  loud  bellowings,  breaks  the  yielding  flcies. 

Their  taflcs  perform 'd,  the  ferpents  quit  their  prey. 

And  to  the  tower  of  Pallas  make  their  way : 

Couch'd  at  her  feet,  they  lie  prote(5led  there. 

By  her  large  buckler,  and  protended  fpear. 

Amazement  feizes  all ;  the  general  cry  300 

Proclaims  Laocoon  juftly  doom'd  to  die, 

Whofe  hand  the  will  of  Pallas  had  withftood. 

And  dar'd  to  violate  the  facred  wood. 

All  vote  t'  admit  the  fteed,  that  vows  be  paid. 

And  incenfe  offer'd,  to  th'  offended  maid.  305 

A  fpacious  breach  is  made,  the  town  lies  bare. 

Some  hoifting  levers,  fome  the  wheels  prepare. 

And  fallen  to  the  horfes  feet :   the  refl: 

With  cables  hawl  along  th'  unwieldy  beaft.. 

Each  on  his  fellow  for  affifl:ance  calls  :  3 1 0 

At  length  the  fatal  fabric  mounts  the  walls. 

Big  with  deftruftion.     Boys  with  chaplets  crown'd. 

And  choirs  of  virgins,  fing  and  dance  around. 

Thus  rais'd  aloft,  and  then  defcending  down. 

It  enters  o'er  our  heads,  and  threats  the  town.         31^ 

O  facred  city!  built  by  hands  divine! 

O  valiant  heroes  of  the  Trojan  line! 

Four  times  he  ftuck]   as  oft  the  clafhing  found 

Of  arms  was  heard,  and  inward  groans  rebounds 

Yet,  mad  with  zeal,  and  blinded  with  our  fate,     320     — 

We  hawl  along  the  horfe  in  folemn  fxate] 

Then 


/^■NEIS.      BOOK    II.  ij 

Then  place  the  dire  portent  within  the  tower. 

CufTandra  cry'd,  and  curs'd  the  unhappy  hour; 

Foretold  cur  fate;  but,  by  the  gods  decree. 

All  heard,  and  none  believ'd,  the  prophecy.  325 

With  branches  we  the  fanes  adorn,  and  wafte 

In  jollity  the  day  ordain'd  to  be  the  lall. 

Mean  time  the  rapid  heavens  roH'd  down  the  light. 

And  on  the  Ihaded  ocean  rulh'd  the  ni^ht: 

Our  men  fecure,  nor  guards  nor  Gentries  held,         330 

IBut  eafy  lleep  their  weary  limbs  compell'd. 

The  Grecians  had  embark'd  their  naval  powers 

From  Tenedos,  and  fought  our  well-known  Ihores: 

Safe  under  covert  of  the  filent  night. 

And  guided  by  th'  imperial  galley's  light.  33^ 

When  Sinon,  favour'd  by  the  partial  gods, 

Unlock'd  the  horfe,  and  op'd  his  dark  abodes; 

Reftor'd  to  vital  air  our  hidden  foes. 

Who  joyful  from  their  long  confinement  rofe. 

Tyfander  bold,  and  Sthenelus  their  guide,  340 

And  dire  UlyiTes,  down  the  cable  Aide: 

Then  Thoas,  Athamas,  and  Pyrrhus  haile ; 

Nor  was  the  Podalyrian  hero  laft : 

Nor  injur'd  Menelaus,  nor  the  fam'd 

Epeus,  who  the  fatal  engine  fram'd.  345 

A  namelefs  crowd  fucceed ;   their  forces  join 

T'  invade  th'  town,  opprefs'd  with  lleep  and  wine. 

Thofe  few  they  find  awake,  firft  meet  their  fate. 

Then  to  their  fellows  they  unbar  the  gate. 

'Twas  in  the  dead  of  night,  when  fleep  repairs       350 

Our  bodies  worn  with  toils,  our  minds  with  cares. 

When 


14  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

When  Heftor's  ghofl  before  my  fight  appears : 

A  bloody  fhroud  he  feem'd,  and  bath'd  in  tears. 

Such  as  he  was,  when^  by  Pelides  flain, 

Theflalian  courfers  dragg'd  him  o'er  the  plain.        ^^^ 

Svvoln  were  his  feet,  as  when  the  thongs  were  thruft 

Through  the  bor'd  holes,  his  body  black  with  dull. 

Unlike  that  Hedor,  who  return"d  from  toils 

Of  war  triumphant,  in  iEacian  fpoils: 

Or  him,  who  made  the  fainting  Greeks  retire,         360 

And  laanch'd  againft  their  navy  Phrygian  fire. 

His  hair  and  beard  flood  ftiffen'd  with  his  gore; 

And  all  the  wounds,  he  for  his  country  bore. 

Now  ftream'd  afrefh,  and  with  new  purple  ran:        "j 

I  wept  to  fee  the  vifionary  man:  3^5  f 

And,  while  my  trance  continued,  thus  began:  J 

O  light  of  Trojans,  and  fupport  of  Troy, 

Thy  father's  champion,  and  thy  country's  joy! 

O,  long  expected  by  thy  friends !  from  whence 

Art  thou  fo  late  retum'd  for  our  defence?  370 

Do  we  behold  thee,  weary 'd  as  we  are. 

With  leng-th  of  labours,  and  with  toils  of  war? 

After  fo  m.any  funerals  of  thy  own. 

Art  thou  reftor'd  to  thy  declining  town  ? 

But  fay,  what  wounds  are  thefe?    What  new  difgracc 

Deforms  the  m.anly  features  of  thy  face? 

To  this  the  fpeclre  no  reply  did  frame ; 

But  anfwer'd  to  the  caufe  for  which  he  came: 

And,  groaning  from  the  bottom  of  his  breaft. 

This  warning,  in  thefe  mournful  words,  exprefs'd : 

Ogod- 


iE  N  E  I  S.     BOOK    II.  15 

O  goddefs-born!   efcape,  by  timely  flight. 

The  flames  and  horrors  of  this  fatal  nio-ht. 

The  foes,  already,  have  poflefs'd  the  wall, 

Troy  nods  from  high,  and  totters  to  her  fall. 

Enough  is  paid  to  Priam's  royal  name,  38- 

More  than  enough  to  duty  and  to  fame. 

If  by  a  mortal  hand  my  father's  throne 

Could  be  defended,  'twas  by  mine  alone: 

Now  Troy  to  thee  commends  her  future  ftate. 

And  gives  her  gods  companions  of  thy  fate:  390 

From  their  afiiftance  happier  walls  expect. 

Which,  wandering  long,  at  laft  thou  fhalt  ere(ft. 

He  faid,  and  brought  me,  from  their  bleft  abodes. 

The  venerable  fl:atues  of  the  gods . 

With  ancient  Vefta  from  the  facred  choir  39^ 

The  wreaths  and  relics  of  th'  immortal  fire. 

Now  peals  of  fhouts  come  thundering  from  afar. 
Cries,  threats,  and  loud  laments,  and  mingled  war! 
The  noife  approaches,  though  our  palace  flood 
Aloof  from  ftreets,  encompafs'd  with  a  wood,        400 
Louder,  and  yet  more  loud,  I  hear  th'  alarms 
Of  human  cries  diftinft,  and  clalhinof  arms! 
Fear  broke  my  fiumbers  :   I  no  longer  Hay,  "^ 

But  mount  the  terrafs,  thence  the  town  furvey:  l 

And  hearken  what  the  fruitful  founds  convey !    40 j  J 
Thus  when  a  flood  of  fire  by  wind  is  born, 
Crackling  it  rolls,  and  mows  the  {landing  corn : 
Or  deluges,  defcending  on  the  plains,  i 

Sweep  o'er  the  yellow  year,  deftroy  the  pains  > 

Of  labouring  oxen,  and  the  peafant's  gains :       410  J 

Unroot 


zi  DRYBEN'S    VIRGIL; 

Unroot  the   oreft  oaks,   and  bear  away 
Flocks,  folds,  and  trees,  an  undiftingaifh'd  prey! 
The  Ihepherd  climbs  the  clifF,  and  fees,  from  far. 
The  wafteful  ravage  of  the  watery  war. 
Then  Heftor's  faith  was  manifeftly  clear 'd;  41  r 

And  Grecian  frauds  in  open  light  appear'd! 
The  palace  of  Dei'phobus  afcends 
In  fmoaky  flames,  and  catches  on  his  friends, 
Ucalegon  burns  next ;  the  feas  are  bright 
"With  fplendor  not  their  ownj  and  Ihine  with  Trojan 
light.  420 

New  clamours  and  new  clangors  now  arife. 
The  found  of  trumpets  mix'd  with  fighting  cries ! 
With  frenzy  feiz'd,  I  run  to  meet  th'  alarms, 
Kefolv'd  on  death,  refolv'd  to  die  in  arms! 
But  lirft  to  gather  friends,  with  them  to  oppofe,     425 
If  fortune  favour'd,  and  repel  the  foes. 
Spurr'd  by  my  courage,  by  my  country  fir'd ; 
With  fenfe  of  honour,  and  revenge  infpir'd! 
Pantheus,  Apollo's  prieft,  a  facred  name. 
Had  Tcap'd  the  Grecian  fvvords,  and  pafs'd  the  flame  ] 
With  relics  loaden,  to  my  doors  he  fled. 
And,  by  the  hand,  his  tender  grandfon  led. 
What  hope,  O  Pantheus !   whither  can  we  run  ? 
Where  make  a  ftand  ?  and  what  may  yet  be  done  ? 
Scarce  had  I  faid,  when  Pantheus,  with  a  groan,     435 
Troy  is  no  more,  and  Ilium  was  a  town! 
The  fatal  day,  th'  appointed  hour,  is  come. 
When  wrathful  Jove's  irrevocable  doom 

Transfers 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    ir.  17 

Transfers  the  Trojan  (late  to  Grecian  hands. 

The  fire  confumes  the  town,  the  foe  commands!    443 

And  armed  hofts,  an  unexpefted  force. 

Break  from  the  bowels  of  the  fatal  horfe! 

Within  the  gates  proud  Sinon  throws  about 

The  flames,  and  foes  for  entrance  prefs  without. 

With  thoufand  others,  whom  I  fear  to  name,  445 

More  than  from  Argos  or  Mycena?  came. 

To  feveral  polls  their  parties  they  divide; 

Some  block  the  narrow  ftreets,  fome  fcour  the  wide. 

The  bold  they  kill,  th'  unwary  they  furprize; 

Who  fights  finds  death,  and  death  finds  him  who  flies. 

The  warders  of  the  gate  but  fcarce  maintain 

Th'  unequal  combat,  and  refill  in  vain. 

I  heard;  and  heaven,  that  well-bom  fouls  infpires. 

Prompts  me,  through  lifted  fwords  and  rifing  fires. 

To  run,  where  clafliing  arms  and  clamour  calls,     45^ 

And  rufh  undaunted  to  defend  the  walls! 

Ripheus  and  Iphitus  by  my  fide  engage. 

For  valour  one  renown'd,  and  one  for  age. 

Dymas  and  Hypanis  by  moonlight  knew 

My  motions  and  my  mien,  and  to  my  party  drew;  460 

With  young  Choroebus,  who  by  love  was  led 

To  win  renown,  and  fair  Caflandra's  bed; 

And  lately  brought  his  troops  to  Priam's  aid : 

Forewam'd  in  vain  by  the  prophetic  maid. 

Whom,  when  I  faw,  refolv'd  in  arms  to  fall,  463 

And  that  one  fpirit  animated  all; 

Brave  fouls,  faid  I,  but  brave,  alas!  in  vain; 

Come,  finifli  what  our  cruel  fates  ordain, 

Vol.  XXIU.  C  You 


iS  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

You  fee  the  defperate  ftate  of  our  affairs; 

And  heaven's  protecling  powers  are  deaf  to  prayers.  470 

The  palTive  gods  behold  the  Greeks  defile 

Their  temples,  and  abandon  to  the  fpoil 

Their  own  abodes :  we,  feeble  few,  confpire 

To  fave  a  finking  town  involv'd  in  fire. 

Then  let  us  fall,  but  fall  amidft  our  foes :  47^ 

Defpair  of  life,  the  means  of  living  fhows. 

So  bold  a  fpeech  encourag'd  their  defire 

Of  death,  and  added  fuel  to  their  fire! 

As  hungry  wolves,  with  raging  appetite. 
Scour  through  the  fields,  nor  fear  the  ftormy  night,  480 
Their  v^helps  at  home  exped:  the  prorais'd  food. 
And  long  to  temper  their  dry  chaps  in  blood. 
So  r.ufh'd  we  forth  at  once,  refolv'd  to  die, 
Refolv'd  in  death  the  laft  extremes  to  try! 
We  leave  the  narrow  lanes  behind,  and  dare       48  i 
Th'  unequal  combat  in  the  public  fquare : 
Night  was  our  friend,  our  leader  was  Defpair. 
What  tongue  can  tell  the  llaughter  of  that  night! 
What  eyes  can  weep  the  forrows  and  affright! 
An  ancient  and  imperial  city  falls,  490 

The  ftreets  are  fiU'd  with  frequent  funerals : 
Houfes  and  holy  temples  fioat  in  blood. 
And  hoftile  nations  make  a  common  flood. 
Not  only  Trojans  fall,  but,  in  their  turn. 
The  vanquifh'd  triumph,  and  the  viftors  mourn.     493; 
Ours  take  new  courage  from  defpair  and  night; 
Confus'd  the  fortune  is,  confus'd  the  fight. 

Afi 


"} 


^NEIS.     BOOK    n.  t) 

AH  parts  refound  with  tumults,  plaints,  and  fears. 

And  grifly  death  in  fundry  ftiapes  appears  I 

Androgeos  fell  among  us,  with  his  band,  500 

Who  thought  us  Grecians  newly  come  to  land: 

From  whence,  faid  he,  my  friends,  this  long  delay? 

You  loiter,  while  the  fpoils  are  barne  away. 

Our  fhips  are  laden  with  the  Trojan  ftore. 

And  you,  like  truants,  come  too  late  afhore.  50^ 

He  faid,  but  foon  correded  his  miflake. 

Found  by  the  doubtful  anfwers  which  we  m.ake : 

Amaz'd  he  would  have  fhunn'd  th'  unequal  fight. 

But  we,  more  numerous,  intercept  his  flight. 

As  when  fome  peafant,  in  a  bufhy  brake,  <^I0 

Has,  with  unwary  footing,  prefs'd  a  fnake. 

He  ftarts  afide,  aftonilh'd,  when  he  fpies 

His  rifing  creft,  blue  neck,  and  rolling  eyes; 

So  from  our  arms  furpriz'd  Androgeos  flies! 

In  vain;  for  him  and  his  we  compafs  round,      ^i^ 

PofTefs'd  with  fear,  unknowing  of  the  ground; 

And  of  their  lives  an  eafy  conqueft  found. 

Thus  fortune  on  our  firll  endeavour  fmil'd; 

Choroebus  then,  with  youthful  hopes  begull'd, 

Swoln  with  fuccefs,  and  of  a  daring  mind,  ^2^ 

This  new  invention  fatally  defign'd. 

My  friends,  faid  he,  fmce  fortune  (hows  the  way, 

'Tis  fit  we  fhould  th'  aufpicious  guide  obey. 

For  what  has  flie  thefe  Grecian  arms  beftow'd. 

But  their  deftrudion,  and  the  Trojans  good?        52^ 

Then  change  we  fhields,  and  their  devices  bear. 

Let  fraud  fupply  the  want  of  force  in  war, 

C  z  They 


} 
] 


»0  rfHYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

They  find  us  arms.     This  faidj,  himfelf  he  drefs'd    V 
In  dead  Androgeos'  fpoils,  his  upper  veil,  L 

His  painted  buckler,  and  his  plumy  crell.  530  J 

Thus  Rypheus,  Dymas,  all  the  Trojain  train. 
Lay  down  their  own  attire,  and  ftrip  the  flain. 
Mix'd  with  the  Greeks,  we  go  with  ill  prefage, 
Flatter'd  with  hopes  to  glut  our  greedy  rage: 
Unknojvn,  aflaulting  whom  v/e  blindly  meet,         ^^S 
And  ftrew,  with  Grecian  carcafes,  the  ftreet. 
Thus  while  their  flraggling  parties  we  defeat. 
Some  to  the  Ihore  and  fafer  (hips  retreat : 
And  fome,  opprefs'd  with  more  ignoble  fear. 
Remount  the  hollow  horfe,  and  pant  in  fecret  there.  540 

But  ah!  what  ufe  of  valour  can  be  made. 
When  heaven's  propitious  powers  refufe  their  aid ! 
Behold  the  royal  prophetefs,  the  fair 
Caffandra,  dragg'd  by  her  difhevel'd  hair; 
Whom  not  Minerva's  fhrine,  nor  facred  bands,      545 
In  fafety  could  proteft  from  facrilegious  hands : 
On  heaven  fhe  call  her  eyes,  Ihe  figh'd,  fhe  cry'd, 
*^;^{'Twas  all  fhe  could),  her  tender  arms  were  ty'd. 
So  fad  a  fight  Chorcebus  could  not  bear; 
But,  fir'd  with  rage,  diftraded  with  defpair,  55b 

Amid  the  barbarous  ravifliers  he  flew; 
Cur  leader's  rafh  example  we  purfue; 
But  florms  of  flones,  from  the  proud  temple's  height. 
Pour  down,  and  on  our  batter'd  helms  alight: 
We  from  our  friends  receiv'd  this  fatal  blow,         ^^^ 
Who  thought  us  Grecians,  as  we  feem'd  in  Ihow. 

Thejr 


^NEIS.     BOOK    IL  «s 

They  aim  at  the  miftaken  crefts,  from  high. 

And  ours  beneath  the  ponderous  ruin  lie. 

Then,  mov'd  with  anger  and  difdain,  to  fee 

Their  troops  difpers'd,  the  royal  virgin  free:         560 

The  Grecians  rally,  and  their  powers  unite. 

With  fury  charge  us,  and  renew  the  fight. 

The  brother-kings  with  Ajax  join  their  force. 

And  the  whole  fquadron  of  ThefTalian  horfe. 

Thus,  when  the  rival  winds  their  quarrel  try,     565 
Contending  for  the  kingdom  of  the  Iky, 
South,  eaft,  and  weft,  on  airy  courfers  borne. 
The  whirlwind  gathers,  and  the  woods  are  torn: 
Then  Nereus  ftrikes  the  deep,  the  billows  rife. 
And,  mixjd  with  ooze  and  fand,  pollute  the  fkies,   570 
The  troops  we  fquander'd  firft,  again  appear 
From  feveral  quarters,  and  indole  the  rear. 
They  firft  obferve,  and  to  the  reft  betray. 
Our  different  fpeech;  our  borrow'd  arms  furvey. 
Opprefs'd  with  odds,  Vvcfall;  Chorcebus  firft,        575 
At  Pallas'  altar,  by  Peneleus  pierc"d. 
Then  Rypheus  follow'd,  in  th'  unequal  fight; 
Juft  of  his  word,  obfervant  of  the  right: 
Heaven  thought  not  fo  :  Dymas  their  fate  attends, 
y/ith  Hypanis,  miftaken  by  their  friends.  580 

Kor  Pantheus,  thee,  thy  mitre  nor  the  bands 
Of  awful  Phoebus,  fav'd  from  impious  hands. 
Ye  Trojan  flames,  your  teftimony  bear 
What  I  perform'd,  and  what  I  fufFer'd  there: 
No  fword  avoiding  in  the  fatal  ftrife,  585 

Expos'd  to  death*  and  prodigal  of  life, 

C  3  Witnefs, 


ii  DJ^YDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Witnefs,  ye  heavens !  I  live  not  by  my  fault; 

I  ftrove  to  have  deferv'd  the  death  I  fought. 

But  when  I  could  not  fight,  and  would  have  dy'cf^ 

Borne  off  to  diftance  by  the  growing  tide,  ^go 

Old  Iphitus  and  I  were  hurry 'd  thence, 

With  Pelias  wounded,  and  without  defence. 

New  clamours  from  th'  invelted  palace  ring; 

We  run  to  die,  or  difengage  the  king. 

^o  hot  th*  aflault,  fo  high  the  tumult  rofe,  ^g^, 

"While  ours  defend,  and  while  the  Greeks  oppofe,. 

As  all  the  Dardan  and  Argolic  race 

Had  been  contradled  in  that  narrow  fpace : 

Or  as  all  Ilium  elfe  were  void  of  fear. 

And  tumult,  war,  and  flaughter  only  there,  6oo 

Their  targets  in  a  tortoife  call,  the  foes 

Secure  advancing,  to  the  turrets  rofe : 

Some  mount  the  fcaling-Iadders ;  fome,  more  boldj 

Swerve  upwards,  and  by  pofts  and  pillars  hold : 

Their  left  hand  gripes  their  bucklers  in  th'  afcent,  60^ 

While  with  the  right  they  feize  the  battlement. 

From  the  demolifh'd  towers  the  Trojans  throw 

Huge  heaps  of  Hones,  that,  falling,  crufh  the  foe : 

And  heavy  beams  and  rafters  from  the  fides 

(Such  arms  their  laft  neceffity  provides) :  61 Q 

And  gilded  roofs  come  tumbling  from  on  high, 

Th':i  marks  of  flate  and  ancient  royalty. 

The  guards  below,  fix'd  in  the  pafs,  attend 

The  charge  undaunted,  and  the  gate  defend, 

Renew'd  in  courage,  with  recover'd  breath,  615 

A  fecond  time  we  ran  to  tempt  our  death ; 


iE  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    IT.  23 

To  clear  the  palace  from  the  foe,  fucceed 

The  weary  living,  and  revenge  the  dead. 

A  poftern-door,  yet  unobferv'd  and  free, 

Join'd  by  the  length  of  a  blind  gallery,  620 

To  the  king's  clofet  led,  a  way  well  known 

To  Hedlor's  wife,  while  Priam  held  the  throne : 

Through  which  Ihe  brought  Aftyanax,  unfeen. 

To  chear  his  grandfire  and  his  grandfire's  queen. 

Through  this  we  pafs,  and  mount  the  tower  from  whence. 

With  unavailing  arms,  the  Trojans  make  defence. 

From  this  the  trembling  king  had  oft  defcry'd 

The  Grecian  camp,  and  faw  their  navy  ride. 

Beams  from  his  lofty  height  with  fwords  we  hew ; 

Then,  wrenching  with  our  hands,  th'  affault  renew. 

And,  where  the  rafters  on  the  columns  meet. 

We  pufh  them  headlong  with  our  arms  and  feet : 

The  lightning  flies  not  fwifter  than  the  fall. 

Nor  thunder  louder  than  the  ruin'd  wall : 

Down  goes  the  top  at  oncej  the  Greeks  beneath     635 

Are  piece-meal  torn,  or  pounded  into  death. 

Yet  more  fucceed,  and  more  to  death  are  fent; 

We  ceafe  not  from  above,  nor  they  below  relent. 

Before  the  gate  flood  Pyrrhus,  threatening  loud. 

With  glittering  arms  confpicuous  in  the  crowd,      64O 

So  fhines,  renew'd  in  youth,  the  crefted  fnake. 

Who  llept  the  winter  in  a  thorny  brake : 

And,  cafting  off  his  flough,  when  fpring  returns. 

Now  looks  aloft,  and  with  new  glory  burns : 

Reftor'd  with  poifonous  herbs,  his  ardent  fides       645: 

Refled  the  fun^  and,  rais'd  on  fpires,  he  rides; 

C  4  Pligh 


•«4  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

High  o'er  the  grafs,  hlfling  he  rolls  along. 

And  brandifhes,  by  fits,  his  forky  tongue. 

Proud  Periphas,  and  fierce  Automedon, 

Mts  father's  charioteer,  together  run  65O 

To  force  the  gate :  the  Scyrian  infantry 

Rulh  on  in  crouds,,  and  the  barr"d  paflage  free. 

Enterin.g  the  court,  with  fhouts  the  Ikies  they  rend. 

And  flaming  firebrands  to  the  roofs  afcend. 

Jlimfelf,  among  the  foremoft,  deals  his  blows,      6^^ 

And,  with  his  ax,  repeated  flrokes  beftows 

On  the  flrong  doors :  then  all  their  Ihoulders  ply. 

Till  from  the  polls  the  brazen  hinges  fiy. 

He  hews  apace,  the  double  bars  at  length 

Yield  to  his  ax,  and  unrefifted  (Irength.  660 

A  mighty  breach  is  made;  the  rooms  concealed 

Appear,  and  all  the  palace  is  reveal'd. 

The  halls  of  audience,  and  of  public  fiate. 

And  where  the  lonely  queen  in  fecret  fate. 

Arm'dfoldiers  now  by  trembling  maids  are  feen,    66^ 

Vv'ith  not  a  door,  and  fcarce  a  fpace  betv/een. 

The  houfe  is  fill'd  with  loud  laments  and  cries. 

And  fhrieks  of  women  rend  the  vaulted  fkies. 

The  fearful  matrons  run  from  place  to  place,  ' 

And  kifs  the  threfholds,  and  the  pofts  embrace,      67(5 

The  fatal  work  inhuman  Pyrrhus  plies. 

And  all  his  father  fparkles  in  his  eyes. 

Nor  bars,  nor  fighting  guards,  his  force  fuftain; 

The  bars  are  broken,  and  the  guards  are  llain. 

In  ruih  the  Greeks,  and  all  th' apartments  fill;        675 

Thofe  few  defendants  whom  they  find  they  kill* 

Not 


iENEIS.     BOOK    II.  23 

Not  with  fo  fierce  a  rage,  the  foaming  flood 
Roars,  when  he  finds  his  rapid  courfe  withllood  : 
Bears  down  the  dams  with  unrefifted  fway. 
And  fweeps  the  cattk  and  the  cots  awa)%  6S0 

Thefe  eyes  beheld  him,  when  he  march'd  between 
The  brother-kings :  I  faw  th'  unhappy  queen. 
The  hundred  wives,  and  where  old  Priam  flood. 
To  ftain  his  hallow'd  altar  with  his  blood. 
The  fifty  nuptial  beds  (fuch  hopes  had  he,  685- 

So  large  a  promife  of  a  progeny). 
The  pofls  of  plated  gold,  and  hung  with  fpoils. 
Fell  the  reward  of  the  proud  vidor's  toilsr 
Where'er  the  raging  fire  had  left  a  fpace. 
The  Grecians  enter,  and  pofTefs  the  place.  690 

Perhaps  you  may  of  Priam's  fate  enquire: 
He,  when  he  faw  his  regal  town  on  fire. 
His  ruin'd  palace,  and  his  entering  foes. 
On  every  fide  inevitable  woes ; 

In  arms  difus'd,  invefts  his  limbs  decay'd  6g^ 

Like  them,  with  age;  a  late  and  ufelefs  aid. 
His  feeble  fhoulders  fcarce  the  weight  fuflain : 
Loaded,  not  arm'd,  he  creeps  along  with  pain; 
Defpairing  of  fuccefs :  ambitious  to  be  Uain! 
Uncover'd  but  by  heaven,  there  flood  in  view        ^00 
An  altar;  near  the  hearth  a  laurel  grew, 
Dodder'd  with  age,  whofe  boughs  encompafs  round 
The  houfhold  gods,  and  fhade  the  holy  ground. 
Here  Hecuba,  with  all  her  helplefs  train 
Of  dajnes,  for  fbelter  fought,  but  fought  in  vain.  70^ 

Driven 


} 


^  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

Driven  like  a  flock  of  doves  along  the  fky. 
Their  images  they  hug,  and  to  their  altars  fly. 
The  queen,  when  fhe  beheld  her  trembling  lord. 
And  hanging  by  his  fide  a  heavy  fword. 
What  rage,  fhe  cry*d,  has  feiz'd  my  huflband's  mlnd^ 
"What  arms  are  thefe,  and  to  what  ufe  defign'd  ? 
Thefe  times  want  other  aids :  were  Hedlor  here, 
Ev'n  Hedor  now  in  vain,  like  Priam,  would  appear. 
With  us,  one  common  fhelter  thou  fhalt  find. 
Or  in  one  common  fate  with  us  be  join'd.  71^ 

She  faid,  and  with  a  lafl  falute  embrac'd 
The  poor  old  man,  and  by  the  laurel  plac'd. 
Behold  Polites,  one  of  Priam*s  fons, 
Purfued  by  Pyrrhus,  there  for  fafety  runs. 
Through  fwords  and  foes,amaz'd  and  hurt  he  flies  720 
Through  empty  courts,  and  open  galleries : 
Him  Pyrrhus,  urging  with  his  lance,  purfues. 
And  often  reaches,  and  his  thrufls  renews. 
The  youth  transfix'd,  with  lamentable  cries. 
Expires,  before  his  wretched  parents'  eyes.  72^ 

Whom,  gafping  at  his  feet,  when  Priam  faw. 
The  fear  of  death  gave  place  to  nature's  law. 
And,  fhalcing  more  with  anger  than  with  age. 
The  gods,  faid  he,  requite  thy  brutal  rage : 
As  fure  they  will  Barbarian !  fure  they  mufl,  733 

If  there  be  gods  in  heaven,  and  gods  be  jufl: 
Who  tak'fl  in  wrongs  an  infolent  delight. 
With  a  fon's  death  t'  infed  a  father's  fight. 
Not  he,  whom  thou  and  lying  fame  confpire 
To  call  thee  liis;  not  he,  thy  vaunted  fire,  735 

Thus 


J5r  N  £  I  S.     B  O  O  K    IT,  «? 

Thus  us'd  my  wretched  age ;  the  gods  he  fear'd. 

The  laws  of  nature  and  of  nations  heard. 

He  chear'd  my  forrows,  and,  for  fums  of  gold» 

The  bloodlefs  carcafe  of  my  Heftor  fold, 

Pity'd  the  woes  a  parent  underwent,  '^^40 

And  fent  me  back  in  fafety  from  his  tent. 

This  faid,  his  feeble  hand  a  javelin  threw. 
Which,  fluttering,  feem'd  to  loiter  as  it  flew: 
Jufi:,  and  but  barely,  to  the  mark  it  held. 
And  faintly  tinckled  on  the  brazen  fhield,  74^ 

Then  Pyrrhus  thus:  Go  thou  from  me  to  fate; 
And  to  my  father  my  foul  deeds  relate. 
Now  die:  with  that  he  dragg'd  the  trembling  fire, 
Sliddering  through  clotter'd  blood  and  holy  mire 
(The  mingled  pafte  his  murder'd  fon  had  made], 
Haul'd  from  beneath  the  violated  fhade. 
And  on  the  facred  pile  the  royal  victim  laid. 
His  right  hand  held  his  bloody  fauchion  bare; 
His  left  he  twilled  in  his  hoary  hair : 
Then,  with  a  fpeeding  thruft,  his  heart  he  found : 
The  lukewarm  blood  came  rufliing  through  the 

wound. 
And  fanguine  ftreams  difl:ain'd  the  facred  ground. 
Thus  Priam  fell,  and  fliar'd  one  common  fate 
With  Troy  in  alhes,  and  his  ruin'd  ftate : 
He,  who  the  fceptre  of  all  Afia  fway'd,  'yC® 

Whom  monarchs,  like  domeftic  flaves,  obey'd. 
On  the  bleak  fliore  now  lies  th'  abandon'd  king, 
*  A  headlefs  carcafe,  and  a  namelefs  thing. 

Then 
•  This  whole  line  is  taken  from  Sir  John  Denham. 


} 


t%  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Then,  not  before,  I  felt  my  curdled  blood 
Congeal  with  fear,  my  hair  v/ith  horror  flood :      76^ 
My  father's  image  fill'd  my  pious  mind. 
Left  equal  years  might  equal  fortune  find. 
Again  I  thought  on  my  forfaken  wife. 
And  trembled  for  my  fon's  abandoned  life. 
I  look'd  about,  but  found  myfelf  alone,  770 

Deferted  at  my  need,  my  friends  were  gone. 
Some  fpent  with  toil,  fome  with  defpair  opprefs'd, 
Leap'd  headlong  from  the  heights;  the  flames  confum'd 

the  reft. 
Thus,  wandering  in  my  way,  without  a  guide. 
The  gracelefs  Helen  in  the  porch  I  fpy*d  77^ 

Of  Vefta's  temple;  there  ilie  lurk'd  alone; 
Muffled  Ihe  fate,  and,  what  fhe  could,  unknown : 
But,  by  the  flames,  that  caft  their  blaze  around. 
That  common  bane  of  Greece  and  Troy,  I  found. 
For  Ilium  burnt,  Ihe  dreads  the  Trojan's  fword; 
More  dreads  the  vengeance  of  her  injur'd  lord; 
Ev'n  by  thofe  gods,  who  refug'd  her,  abhorr'd. 
Trembling  with  rage,  the  ftrumpet  I  regard; 
Refolv'd  to  give  her  guilt  the  due  reward. 
Shall  fhe  triumphant  fail  before  the  wind,  785 

And  leave  in  flames  unhappy  Troy  behind  ? 
Shall  fhe  her  kingdom  and  her  friends  review. 
In  ftate  attended  with  a  captive  crew ; 
While  unreveng'd  the  good  old  Priam  falls. 
And  Grecian  fires  confume  the  Trojan  walls  ?         790 
For  this  the  Phrygian  fields  and  Xanthian  flood 
Were  fwell'd  with  bodies,  and  were  dxunk  with  blood ! 

'Tis 


} 


'■} 


i5:NEIS.     BOOK    ir.  1^ 

'Tis  true,  a  foldier  can  fmall  honour  gain. 

And  boaft  no  conqueft  from  a  woman  flain ; 

Yet  fnall  the  faft  not  pafs  without  applaufe,  79^ 

Of  vengeance  taken  in  fo  juft  a  caufe. 

The  punifli'd  crime  fhall  fet  my  foul  at  eafe: 

And  murmuring  manes  of  my  friends  appeafe. 

Thus  while  I  rave,  a  gleam  of  pleafant  light 

Spread  o'er  the  place,  and,  fhining  heavenly  bright j 

My  mother  flood  reveal'd  before  my  fight. 

Never  fo  radiant  did  her  eyes  appear ; 

Nor  her  own  ftar  confefs'd  a  light  fo  clear. 

Great  in  her  charms,  as  when  the  gods  above 

She  looks,  and  breathes  herfelf  into  their  love.       805 

She  held  my  hand,  the  deftin'd  blow  to  break: 

Then,  from  her  rofy  lips,  began  to  fpeak : 

My  fon,  from  whence  this  madnefs,  this  negle(fl: 

Of  ray  commands,  and  thofe  whom  I  proted? 

Why  this  unmanly  rage?  recal  to  mind  810 

Whom  you  forfake,  what  pledges  leave  behind. 

Look  if  your  haplefs  father  yet  furvivej 

Or  if  Afcanius,  or  Creiifa,  live. 

Around  your  houfe  the  greedy  Grecians  err  j  'j 

And  thefe  had  perifh'd  in  the  nightly  war,  ^^5  r 

But  for  my  prefence  and  protecting  care.  J 

Not  Helen's  face,  nor  Paris,  was  in  fault : 

But  by  the  gods  was  this  deftruftion  brought. 

Now  caft  your  eyes  around ;  while  I  difiblve 

The  mifts  and  films  that  mortal  eyes  involve:  820 

Purge  from  your  fight  the  drofs,  and  make  you  fee 

The  Ihape  of  each  avenging  deity, 

Enlighten'd 


go  DRYDEN'S   VTRGTL. 

EnlightenM  thus,  my  juft  commands  fulfilt 

Nor  fear  obedience  to  your  mother's  will. 

Where  yon  diforder'd  heap  of  ruin  lies,  82^ 

Stones  rent  from  ftones,  where  clouds  of  dufl  arife. 

Amid  that  {mother,  Neptune  holds  his  place : 

Below  the  wall's  foundation  drives  his  mace: 


} 


And  heaves  the  building  from  the  folid  bafe. 
Look  where,  in  arms,  imperial  Juno  ftands,        8jol 
Full  in  the  Scaean  gate,  with  loud  commands,  > 

Urging  on  Ihore  the  tardy  Grecian  bands.  J 

See  Pallas,  of  her  fnaky  buckler  proud, 
Beftrides  the  tower,  refulgent  through  the  cloud : 
See  Jove  new  courage  to  the  foe  fupplies,  85^ 

And  arms  againft  the  town  the  partial  deities. 
Hafte  hence,  my  fon ;  this  fruitlefs  labour  end :         n 
Hafte  where  your  trembling  fpoufe  and  fire  attend :    J. 
Hafte,  and  a  mother's  care  your  paffage  fhall  befriend.  J 
She  faid :  and  fwiftly  vaniih'd  from  my  fight,         840 
Obfcure  in  clouds,  and  gloomy  fhades  of  night. 
i  look'd,  I  liften'd;  dreadful  founds  I  hear; 
And  the  dire  forms  of  hoftile  gods  appear. 
Troy  funk  in  flames  I  faw,  nor  could  prevent; 
And  Ilium  from  its  old  foundations  rent.  84^ 

Rent  like  a  mountain  afh,  which  dar'd  the  winds ; 
And  flood  the  fturdy  ftrokes  of  labouring  hinds : 
About  the  roots  the  cruel  ax  refounds. 
The  ftumps  are  plerc'd  with  oft-repeated  wounds. 
The  war  is  felt  on  high,  the  nodding  crown  850 

Now  threats  a  fall,  and  throws  the  leafy  honours  down. 
I  To 


JE  N  E  I  S.      B  O  O  K     ir.  ji 

To  their  united  force  it  yields,  though  late; 
And  mourns,  with  mortal  groans,  th'  approaching  fate: 
The  roots  no  more  their  upper  load  fuftain ; 
But  down  (he  falls,  and  fpreads  a  ruin  through  the  plain. 
Defcending  thence,  1  'fcape  through  foes,  and  fire; 
Before  the  goddefs,  foes  and  flames  retire, 
Arriv'd  at  home,  he  for  whofe  only  fake. 
Or  moft  for  his,  fuch  toils  I  undertake. 
The  good  Anchifes,  whom,  by  timely  flight,  S6o 

I  purposed  to  fecure  on  Ida's  height, 
Refus'd  the  journey;  refolute  to  die. 
And  add  his  funerals  to  the  fate  of  Troy: 
Rather  than  exile  and  old  age  fuftain. 
Go  you,  whofe  blood  runs  warm  in  every  vein:     85^ 
Had  heaven  decreed  that  I  ihould  life  enjoy. 
Heaven  had  decreed  to  fave  unhappy  Troy. 
'Tis  fure  enough,  if  not  too  much  for  one. 
Twice  to  have  feen  our  Ilium  overthrown. 
Make  hafte  to  fave  the  poor  remaining  crew;  870 

And  give  this  ufelefs  corpfe  a  long  adieu. 
Thefe  weak  old  hands  fufiice  to  flop  my  breath: 
At  leaft  the  pitying  foes  will  aid  my  death. 
To  take  my  fpoils :  and  leave  my  body  bare : 
As  for  my  fepulchre  let  heaven  take  care.  875 

'Tis  long  fmce  I,  for  my  celeftial  wife, 
Loath'd  by  the  gods,  have  dragg'd  a  lingering  life: 
Since  every  hour  and  m.oment  I  expire, 
Blafted  from  heaven  by  Jove's  avenging  fire. 
This  oft  repeated,  he  flood  fix'd  to  die :  880 1 

Myfelf,  my  wife,  my  fon,  my  family,  > 

Intreat,  pray,  beg,  and  raife  a  doleful  cry.  J 

What, 


%t  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

What,  will  he  ftill  perfift,  on  death  refolve. 

And  in  his  ruin  all  his  houfe  involve  ? 

He  ftill  perfifts  his  reafons  to  maintain;  88^ 

Cur  prayers,  our  tears,  our  loud  laments,  are  vain, 

Urg'd  by  defpair,  again  I  go  to  try 
The  fate  of  arms,  refolv'd  in  fight  to  die. 
What  hope  remains,  but  what  my  death  muft  give? 
Can  I  without  fo  dear  a  father  live?  893 

You  term  it  prudence,  what  I  bafenefs  call : 
Could  fuch  a  word  from  fuch  a  parent  fall  ? 
If  fortune  pleafe,  and  fo  the  gods  ordain. 
That  nothing  fhould  of  ruin'd  Troy  remain ; 
And  you  confpire  with  fortune,  to  be  flain;       895 
The  way  to  death  is  wide,  th'  approaches  near : 
For  foon  relentlefs  Pyrrhus  will  appear, 
Reeking  with  Priam's  blood :  the  wretch  who  flew 
The  fon  (inhuman)  in  the  father's  view. 
And  then  the  fire  himfelf  to  the  dire  altar  drew, 

O  goddefs-mother,  give  me  back  to  fate ; 
Your  gift  was  undefir'd,  and  came  too  late. 
Did  you  for  this,  unhappy  me  convey 
Through  foes  and  fires  to  fee  my  houfe  a  prey  ? 
Shall  I,  my  father,  wife,  and  fon,  behold  90^; 

Weltering  in  blood,  each  other's  arms  infold? 
Hafte!   gird  my  fword,  though  fpent  and  overcome: 
'Tis  the  laft  fummons  to  receive  your  doom, 
I  hear  thee,  fate,  and  I  obey  thy  call : 
Not  unreveng'd  the  foe  fhall  fee  my  fall.  910 

Reftore  me  yet  to  the  unfinifh'd  fight : 
My  death  is  wanting  to  conclude  the  night, 

Arm'd 


J^E  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    ir.  ^ 

Arm'd  once  again,  ttiy  glittering  fword  I  wield!       ^ 

"While  th'  other  hand  fuftains  my  weighty  fhield  :       t 

And  forth  I  rufh  to  feek  th'  abandon'd  field.       915  J 

I  went;  but  fad  Creiifa  ftopp"d  my  way. 

And,  crofs  the  threfhold,  in  my  paffage  lay; 

Embrac'd  my  knees;  and  when  I  would  have  gone, 

Shew'd  me  my  feeble  fire,  and  tender  fon. 

If  death  be  your  defign,  at  leaft,  faid  Ihe,  520 

Take  us  along  to  fhare  your  deftiny, 

If  any  further  hopes  in  arms  remain. 

This  place,  thefe  pledges  of  your  love  maintain. 

To  whom  do  you  expofe  your  father's  life. 

Your  fon's,  and  mine,  your  now-forgotten  wife!  92 j^ 

MTiile  thus  fhe  fills  the  houfe  with  clamorous  cries. 

Our  hearing  is  diverted  by  our  eyes; 

For  while  I  held  my  fon,  in  the  fhort  fpace. 

Betwixt  our  kifiTes  and  our  lafl:  embrace. 

Strange  to  relate,  from  young  lulus'  head  530 

A  lambent  flame  arofe,  which  gently  fpread 

Around  his  brows,  and  on  his  temples  fed. 

Amaz'd,  with  running  water  we  prepare 

To  quench  the  facred  fire,  and  flake  his  hair^ 

But  old  Anchifes,  vers'd  in  omens,  rear'd  95^ 

His  hand  to  heaven,  and  this  requefl:  preferr'd: 

If  any  vows,  almighty  Jove,  can  bend 

Thy  will,  if  piety  can  prayers  commend. 

Confirm  the  glad  prefage  which  thou  art  pleas 'd  to 

fend. 

Scarce  had  he  faid,  when,  on  our  left,  we  hear     940 
A  peal  of  rattling  thunder  roll  in  air ; 

VoL»XXIIL  J>  There 


} 


^  |>RYDEN»S    VIRGIL, 

There  fliot  a  ftreaming  lamp  along  the  Iky,  \ 

Which  on  the  winged  lightning  feem'd  to  fly; 
From  .o'er  the  roof  the  blaze  began  to  move; 
And  trailing  vanifh'd  in  th'  Idean  grove.  94.^ 

It  fwept  a  path  in  heaven,  and  fhone  a  guide; 
Then  in  a  fteaming  flench  of  fulphur  dy'd. 

The  good  old  man  with  fuppliant  hands  implor'd 
Xhe  gods  proteftion,  and  their  ftar  ador'd. 
Now,  now,  faid  he,  my  fon,  no  more  delay,         950 
I  yield,  I  follow  where  heaven  fhews  the  way. 
Keep  (O  my  country  gods)  our  dwelling-place. 
And  guard  this  relick  of  the  Trojan  race: 
This  tender  child;  thefe  omens  are  your  own; 
And  you  can  yet  reftore  the  ruin'd  iov/n.  95^' 

At  leaft  accompliih  what  your  figns  forefliow :  y 

I  ftand  refign'd,  and  am  prepar'd  to  go. 

He  faid ;  the  crackling  flames  appear  on  high, 
Afid  driving  fparkles  dance  along  the  iky. 
With  Vulcan's  rage  the  rifing  winds  confpire;        969 
Akid  near  our  palace  rolls  the  flood  of  fire. 
Hafle,  my  dear  father  ('tis  no  time  to  wait,) 
And  load  my  fhoulders  with  a  willing  freight. 
Whate'er  befals,  your  life  fhall  be  my  care. 
One  death,  or  one  deliverance,  we  will  Ihare.        965 
My  hand  fliall  lead  our  little  fon;  and  you. 
My  faithful  confort,  Ihall  our  fleps  purfue. 
Next,  you,  my  fervants,  heed  my  ftrift  commands :    > 
Without  the  walls  a  ruin'd  temple  flands. 
To  Ceres  hallow'd  once;  a  cyprefs  nigh  97^: 

Shoots  up  her  venerable  head  on  high; 

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^NEIS.     BOOK    It.  3y 

By  long  religion  kept :  there  bend  your  feet; 

And,  in  divided  parties,  let  us  meet. 

Our  country  gods,  the  relicks,  and  the  bands. 

Hold  you,  my  father,  in  your  guiltlefs  hands :       975 

In  me  *tis  impious  holy  things  to  bear. 

Red  as  I  am  with  flaughter,  new  from  war: 

Till,  in  fome  living  ftream,  I  cleanfe  the  guilt 

Of  dire  debate,  and  blood  in  battle  fpilt. 

Thus,  ordering  all  that  prudence  could  provide,    980 

I  clothe  my  fhoulders  with  a  lion's  hide. 

And  yellow  fpoils:  then,  on  my  bending  back. 

The  welcome  load  of  my  dear  father  take. 

While,  on  my  better  hand,  Afcanius  hung, 

And,  with  unequal  paces,  tript  along.  98  jj 

Creiifa  kept  behind :  by  choice  we  ftray 

Through  every  dark  and  e\'ery  devious  wa)', 

I,  who  fo  bold  and  dauntlefs,  juft  before. 

The  Grecian  darts  and  fhocks  of  lances  bore,  ' 

At  every  Ihadow  now  am  feiz'd  with  fear:  990 

Not  for  myfelf,  but  for  the  charge  I  bear. 

Till  near  the  ruin'd  gate  arriv'd  at  laft. 

Secure,  and  deeming  all  the  danger  paft, 

A  frightful  fioife  of  trampling  feet  we  hear; 

y[y  father,  looking  through  the  Ihades  with  fear,    995; 

Cry'd  out,  Hafte,  hafte,  my  fon,  the  foes  are  nigh; 

Their  fwords  and  fliining  armour  I  defcry. 

Some  hoftile  god,  for  fome  unknown  offence. 

Had  fure  bereft  my  mind  of  better  fenfe : 

For  while,  through  winding  ways,  I  took  my  flight. 

And  fought  the  ihelter  of  the  gloomy  night, 

D  Z  Alas 


3^  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Alas!  I  loft  Creufa:  hard  to  tell 

If  by  her  fatal  deftiny  (he  fell. 

Or  weary  fate,  or  wander "d  with  affright; 

But  Ihe  was  loft  for  ever  to  my  fight.  loo^ 

I  knew  not,  or  reflected,  till  I  meet 

My  friends,  at  Ceres'  now-deferted  feat: 

We  met :  not  one  was  wanting,  only  fhe 

Deceiv'd  her  friends,  her  fon,  and  wretched  me. 

What  mad  expreffions  did  my  tongue  refufe!         loio 

Whom  did  I  i^ot  of  gods  or  men  accufe! 

This  was  the  fatal  blow,  that  pain'd  me  more 

Than  all  I  felt  from  ruin'd  Troy  before. 

Stung  with  my  lofs,  and  raving  with  defpair. 

Abandoning  my  now-forgotten  care,  loij^ 

Of  counfel,  comfort,  and  of  hope  bereft. 

My  fire,  my  fon,  my  country  gods,  I  left. 

In  ftiining  armour  once  again  I  iheath 

My  limbs,  not  feeling  wounds,  nor  fearing  death. 

Then  headlong  to  the  burning  walls  I  run,  1020 

And  feek  the  danger  I  was  forc'd  to  fhun* 

I  tread  my  former  tracks :  through  night  explore 

Each  paflage,  every  ftreet  I  crofs'd  before. 

All  things  were  full  of  horror  and  affright. 

And  dreadful  ev'n  the  filence  of  the  night.  I02j^ 

Then  to  my  father's  houfe  I  make  repair. 

With  fome  fmall  glimpfe  of  hope  to  find  her  there ; 

Inftead  of  her,  the  cruel  Greeks  I  met : 

The  houfe  was  fiU'd  with  foes,  with  flames  befet. 

Driven  on  the  wings  of  winds,  whole  ftieets  of  fire. 

Through  air  tranfported,  to  the  roofs  afpire. 

J  From 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  0  O  K    II  37 

From  thence  to  Priam's  palace  I  refort. 

And  fearch  the  citadel,  and  defert  court. 

Then,  unobferv'd,  I  pafs'd  by  Juno's  church; 

A  guard  of  Grecians  had  poffefs'd  the  porch:        103^ 

There  Phoenix  and  UlyiTes  watch  the  prey. 

And  thither  all  the  wealth  of  Troy  convey. 

The  fpoils  which  they  from  ranfack'd  houfes  brought. 

And  golden  bowls  from  burning  altars  caught. 

The  tables  of  the  gods,  the  purple  ^•efts,  1040 

The  peoples'  treafure,  and  the  pomp  of  priefts. 

A  rank  of  wretched  youths,  with  pinion'd  hands. 

And  captive  matrons  in  long  order  ftands. 

Then,  with  ungovern'd  madnefs,  I  proclaim. 

Through  all  the  filent  flreets,  Creiifa's  name,         104^ 

Creiifa  dill  I  call:  at  length  (he  hears; 

And,  fudden,  through  the  fhades  of  night  appears. 

Appears  no  more  Creiifa,  nor  my  wife. 

But  a  pale  fpeflre,  larger  than  the  life. 

Aghaft,  aftonifh'd,  and  ftruck  dumb  with  fear,     1050 

I  flood;  like  briftles  rofe  my  ftiffen'd  hair. 

Then  thus  the  ghoft  began  to  foothe  my  grief: 

Nor  tears,  nor  cries,  can  give  the  dead  relief; 

Defift,  my  much-lov'd  lord,   t'  indulge  your  pain : 

You  bear  no  more  than  what  the  gods  ordain,      lOj"^ 

My  fates  permit  me  not  from  hence  to  fly; 

Nor  he,  the  great  comptroller  of  the  (ky. 

Long  wandering  ways  for  you  the  po^vers  decree : 

On  land  hard  labours,  and  a  length  of  fea. 

Then,  after  many  painful  years  are  paft,  1 060 

On  Latium's  happy  Ihore  you  Ihall  be  call ; 

J)  3  Where 


SS  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Where  gentle  Tiber  from  his  bed  beholds 

The  flowery  meadows,  and  the  feeding  folds. 

There  end  your  toils :  and  there  your  fates  provide 

A  quiet  kingdom^  and  a  royal  bride:  io6§ 

There  fortune  fhall  the  Trojan  line  reftorej 

And  you  for  loft  Creiifa  weep  no  more. 

Fear  not  that  I  fhall  watch,  with  fervile  fhame, 

Th'  imperious  looks  of  fome  proud  Grecian  dame : 

Or,  -ilooping  to  the  vidor's  luft,  difgrace  1076 

My  goddefs-mother,  or  my  royal  race. 

And  now,  farewel:  the  parent  of  the  gods  \ 

Reftrains  my  fleeting  foul  in  her  abodes : 

I  truft  our  common  iflfue  to  your  care. 

She  faid :  and  gliding  pafs'd  unfeen  in  air.  i^TiT 

Tftrove  to  fpeak,  but  horror  ty'd  ray  tongue; 

And  thrice  about  her  neck  my  arms  I  flung: 

And  thrice,  deceiv'd,.  on  vain  embraces  hung. 

Light  as  an  cm^ty  dream  at  break  of  day. 

Or  as  a  blaft  of  wind,  fhe  rufli'd  away.  io8q 

Thus,  having  pafs'd  the  night  in  fruitlefs  pain, 
I  to  my  longing  friends  return  again. 
Amaz'd  th'  augmented  number  to  behold. 
Of  men  and  matrons  mix'd,  of  young  and  old : 
A  wretched  exil'd  crew  together  brought,  108^ 

With  arms  appointed,  and  with  treafure  fraught, 
Refolv'd,  and  willing  under  ray  command. 
To  run  all  hazards  both  of  fea  and  land* 
The  morn  began,  from  Ida,  to  difplay  ^ 

Jkr  jofy  cheeks,  and  Phofphor  led  the  day:        1090 

BefoiQ* 


iENEIS.     BOjOK    ir.  39 

Before  the  gates  the  Grecians  took  their  poft: 
And  all  pretence  of  late  relief  were  loft, 
I  yield  to  fate,  unwillingly  retire. 
And,  loaded,  up  the  bill  convey  my  fire. 


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THE 

THIRD        BOOK 

OF      THE 

iE  N  E  I  S. 

THEARGUMENT. 

Mnt'is  proceeds  in  his  relation :  he  gives  an  account 
of  the  fleet  with  which  he  failed,  and  the  fuccefs  of 
his  firft  voyage  to  Thrace ;  from  thence  he  direds 
his  courfe  to  Delos,  and  afks  the  oracle  what  place 
the  Gods  had  appointed  for  his  habitation?  By  a 
miftake  of  the  oracle's  anfwer,  he  fettles  in  Crete : 
his  houfliold  Gods  give  him  the  true  fenfe  of  the 
oracle  in  a  dream:  he  follows  their  advice,  and 
makes  the  beft  of  his  way  for  Italy :  he  is  caft  on 
feveral  fhores,  and  meets  with  very  furprizing  adven- 
tures, till  at  length  he  lands  on  Sicily;  where  hi* 
father  Anchifes  dies.  This  is  the  place  he  was  fail- 
ing from,  when  the  tempeft  rofe,  and  threw  him- 
upon  the  Carthaginian  coaft. 

■^TT  THEN  heaven  had  overtum'd  the  Trojan  ftate,. 

^  ^     And  Priam's  throne,  by  too  fevere  a  fate: 
"When  ruin'd  Troy  became  the  Grecians  prey. 
And  Ilium's  lofty  towers  in  alhes  lay; 

Warned 


jgSNEIS.     BOOK    III.  4., 

Wam'd  by  celeftial  omens,  we  retreat,  ^ 

To  feek  in  foreign  lands  a  happier  feat. 
Near  old  Antandros,  and  at  Ida's  foot,. 
The  timber  of  the  facred  groves  we  cut; 
And  build  our  fleet:  uncertain  yet  to  find 
"What  place  the  gods  for  our  repofe  aflign'd.  10 

Friends  daily  flock,  and  fcarce  the  kindly  fpring 
Began  to  cloathe  the  ground,  and  birds  to  fing: 
When  old  Anchifes  fummon'd  all  to  fea  i 
The  crew,  my  father  and  the  fates  obey. 
With  fighs  and  tears  I  leave  my  native  (hore,  t^ 

And  empty  fields,  where  Ilium  flood  before. 
My  fire,  my  fon,  our  lefs,  and  greater  gods. 
All  fail  at  oncej  and  cleave  the  briny  floods, 
Againft  our  coaft  appears  a  fpacious  land. 
Which  once  the  fierce  Lycurgus  did  command  :        2a 
Thracia  the  name;  the  people  bold  in  war; 
Vaft  are  their  fields,  and  tillage  is  their  care. 
A  hofpitable  realm,  while  fate  was  kind; 
With  Troy  in  friendfhip  and  religion  joIn'd» 
I  land,  v/ith  lucklefs  omens;  then  adore  2^ 

Their  gods,  and  draw  a  line  along  the  fliore : 
I  lay  the  deep  foundations  of  a  wall : 
And  Enos,  nam'd  from  me,  the  city  call. 
To  Dionsean  Venus  vows  are  paid. 
And  all  the  powers  that  rifing  labours  aid; 
A  bull  on  Jove's  imperial  altar  laid. 
Not  far,  a  rifing  hillock  ftood  in  view; 
Sharp  myrtles^  on  the  fides^  and  cornels  grew. 


.A 


There 


4f  PRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

There,  while  I  went  to  crop  the  fylvan  fcenes. 

And  fhade  our  altar  with  their  leafy  greens,  3^ 

I  pull'd  a  plant  (with  horror  I  relate 

A  prodigy  fo  ftrange,  and  full  of  fate) ; 

The  rooted  fibres  rofe;   and  from  the  wound. 

Black  bloody  drops  diftill'd  upon  the  ground. 

Mute,  and  amaz'd,  my  hair  with  terror  flood;  4® 

Fear  ilirunk  my  fmews,  and  congeal'd  my  blood : 

Man'd  once  again,  another  plant  I  try. 

That  other  gufh'd  with  the  fame  fanguine  dye. 

Then,  fearing  guilt  for  fome  offence  unknown. 

With  prayers  and  vows  the  Dryads  I  atone;  4^ 

With  all  the  fillers  of  the  woods,  and  moll 

The  god  of  arms,  who  rules  the  Thracian  coafl; 

That  they,  or  he,  thefe  omens  would  avert ; 

Releafe  our  fears,  and  better  figns  impart. 

Clear'd,  as  I  thought,  and  fully  fix'd  at  length         50 

To  learn  t^e  caufe,  I  tugg'd  with  all  my  flrength ; 

I  bent  my  knees  againfl  the  ground;  once  more 

The  violated  myrtle  ran  with  gore. 

Scarce  dare  I  tell  the  fequel :   from  the  womb 

Of  wounded  earth,  and  caverns  of  the  tomb,  ^jp 

A  groan  as  of  a  troubled  ghoft  renew'd 

My  fright,  and  then  thefe  dreadful  words  enfued ; 

Why  doft  thou  thus  my  bury'd  body  rend  ? 

O  fpare  the.corpfe  of  thy  unhappy  friend! 

Spare  to  pollute  thy  pious  hands  with  blood :  60 

The  tears  diflil  not  from  the  wounded  woodj 

But  every  drop  this  living  tree  contains 

Is  kindred  bloody  and  ran  in  Trojan  veins; 

Ofl/ 


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} 


^NEIS.     BOOK    !IL  4I 

O  fly  from  this  unhofpitable  fliore. 
Warn "d  by  my  fate ;  for  I  am  Polydoref 
Here  loads  of  lances,  in  my  blood  erabrued. 
Again  (boot  upward,  by  my  blood  renewM. 

Mv  faltering  tongue  and  lliivering  limbs  declare 
My  horror,  and  in  briftles  rofe  my  hair. 
When  Troy  with  Grecian  arms  was  clofely  pent,  70 
Old  Priam,  fearful  of  the  war's  event. 
This  haplefs  Polydore  to  Thracia  fent. 
Loaded  with  gold,  he  fent  his  darling  far 
From  noife  and  tumults,  and  deftruftive  war: 
Committed  to  the  faithlefs  tyrant's  care  r 
Who,  when  he  faw  the  power  of  Troy  decline, 
Forfook  the  weaker,  with  the  ftrong  to  join : 
Broke  every  bond  of  nature,  and  of  truth : 
And  murder'd,  for  his  wealth,  the  royal  youth* 

0  facred  hunger  of  pernicious  gold,  80 
What  bands  of  faith  can  impious  lucre  hold? 

Now,  -when  my  foul  had  fhaken  off  her  fears, 

1  call  my  father,  and  the  Trojan  peers : 
Relate  the  prodigies  of  heaven,  require 

What  he  commands,  and  their  advice  defire*  S5' 

All'vote  to  leave  that  execrable  fhore. 

Polluted  with  the  blood  of  Polydore, 

But  ere  we  fail,  his  funeral  rites  prepare; 

Then,  to  his  ghoft,  a  tomb  and  altars  rear. 

In  mournful  pomp  the  matrons  walk  the  round ;   90 

With  baleful  cyprefs  and  blue  fillets  crown'd; 

With  eyes  deje^cd,  and  with  hair  unbound. 

Then 


} 


44-  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

Then  bowls  of  tepid  milk  and  blood  we  pour, 
^nd  thrice  invoke  the  foul  of  Polydore. 

Now  when  the  raging  ftorms  no  longer  reign ;      g^ 
But  fouthern  gales  invite  us  to  the  main; 
We  launch  our  veffels,  with  a  profperous  wind ; 
And  leave  the  cities  and  the  fhores  behind. 

An  ifland  in  th'  ^gean  main  appears; 
Neptune  and  watery  Doris  claim  it  theirs,  lOO 

It  floated  once,  till  Phoebus  fix'd  the  iides 
To  rooted  earth,  and  now  it  braves  the  tides. 
Here,  borne  by  friendly  winds,  we  come  afhore,       "] 
With  needful  eafe  our  weary  limbs  reftore ;  > 

And  the  fun"s  temple  and  his  town  adore.  105  J 

Anius  the  prieft,  and  king,  with  laurel  crown 'd. 
His  hoary  locks  with  purple  fillets  bound. 
Who  faw  ray  fire  the  Delian  fhore  afcend. 
Came  forth  with  eager  hafte  to  meet  his  friend : 
Invites  him  to  his  palace :  and  in  fign  1 1 0 

Of  ancient  love,  their  plighted  hands  they  join. 
Then  to  the  temple  of  the  god  I  went ; 
And  thus  before  the  fhrine  my  vows  prefent : 
Give,  O  Thymbrsus,  give  a  refling-place 
To  the  fad  relicks  of  the  Trojan  race ;  115 

A  feat  fecure,  a  region  of  their  own, 
A  lafting  empire,  and  a  happier  town. 
Where  fhall  we  fix,  where  fhall  our  labours  end. 
Whom  fnall  we  follow,  and  what  fate  attend  ? 
Let  not  my  prayers  a  doubtful  anfwer  find,  12a 

But  in  clear  auguries  unveil  thy  mind» 

Scarce 


} 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Iir.  45 

Scarce  had  I  faid  ;  he  fhook  the  holy  ground. 

The  laurels,  and  the  lofty  hills  around  ; 

And  from  the  tripos  rufh'd  a  bellowing  found, 

Proftrate  we  fell,  confefs'd  the  prefent  god;  125 

Who  o-ive  this  anfwer  from  his  dark  abode : 

Undaunted  youths,  go  feek  that  mother  earth 

From  which  your  ancellors  derive  their  birth. 

The  foil  that  fent  you  forth,  her  ancient  race. 

In  her  old  bofom,  fhall  again  embrace.  150 

Through  the  wide  world  th'  vEneian  houfe  fhall  reign. 

And  childrens  children  Ihall  the  crown  fiiftain. 

Thus  Phoebus  did  our  future  fates  difclofe; 

A  mighty  tumult,  mix'd  with  joy,  arofe. 

All  are  concern 'd  to  know  what  place  the  god     ly^ 
Affign'd,  and  where  determin'd  our  abode. 
My  father,  long  revolving  in  his  mind 
The  race  and  lineage  of  the  Trojan  kind. 
Thus  anfwer'd  their  demands :  he  princes,  hear 
Your  plealing  fortune;  and  difpel  your  fear,  140 

The  fruitful  ifle  of  Crete,  well  known  to  fame. 
Sacred  of  old  to  Jove's  imperial  name. 
In  the  mid  ocean  lies  with  large  command; 
And  on  its  plains  a  hundred  cities  ftand. 
Another  Ida  rifes  there;  and  we  24^ 

From  thence  derive  our  Trojan  anceftry. 
From  thence,  as  'tis  divulg'd  by  certain  fame. 
To  the  Rhaetean  (hores  old  Teucer  came : 
There  fix'd,  and  there  the  feat  of  empire  chofe. 
Ere  Ilium  and  the  Trojan  towers  arofe,  1 50 

In 


} 


46  DRYDEN*S    VIRGIL. 

In  humble  vales  they  built  their  foft  abodes : 
Till  Cybele,  the  mother  of  the  gods. 
With  tinkling  cymbals,  charm 'd  th'  Idean  woods. 
She  fecret  rites  and  ceremonies  taught. 
And  to  the  yoke  the  favage  lions  brought.  i^^ 

Let  us  the  land,  which  heaven  appoints,  explore; 
Appeafe  the  winds,  and  feek  the  Gnoffian  {horc« 
If  Jove  affift  the  paflage  of  our  fleet. 
The  third  propitious  dawn  difcovers  Crete 
Thus  having  faid,  the  facrifices  laid  1 60 

On  fmoaking  altars,  to  the  gods  he  paid, 
A  bull  to  Neptune,  an  oblation  due. 
Another  bull  to  bright  Apollo  flew ; 
A  milk-white  ewe  the  weftern  winds  to  pleafe : 
And  one  coal  black  to  calm  the  llormy  feas.  1 65 

Ere  this,  a  flying  rumour  had  been  fpread^, 
That  fierce  Idoraeneus  from  Crete  was  fled| 
Expell'd  and  exil'd ;  that  the  coaft  was  free 
From  foreign  or  domeftic  enemy : 
We  leave  the  Delian  ports,  and  put  to  Tea.  170 

By  Naxos,  fam'd  for  vintage,  make  our  way: 
Then  green  Donyfa  pafs ;  and  fail  in  fight 
Of  Paros  ifle,  with  marble  quarries  white. 
We  pafs  the  fcatter'd  ides  of  Cyclades, 
That,  fcarce  difl:ingui{h"d  feem  to  ftud  the  feas,      1 7^ 
The  fhou<:s  of  failors  double  near  the  (hores ; 
They  ftretch  their  canvas,  and  they  ply  their  oars. 
All  hands  aloft,  for  Crete,  for  Crete  they  cry, 
AikI  fwifily  through  the  foamy  billows  fly^  i 

Full 


JENEIS.     BOOK    IIT.^  47 

Tull  on  the  promis'd  land  at  length  we  bore,  1 8« 

Wkh  joy  defcending  on  the  Cretan  fhore. 

With  eager  hafte  a  rifing  town  I  frame. 

Which  from  the  Trojan  Pergamus  I  name : 

The  name  itfelf  was  grateful;  I  exhort 

To  found  their  houfes,  and  ereft  a  fort.  1 8^ 

Our  fhips  are  haul'd  upon  the  yellow  ftrand. 

The  youth  begin  to  till  the  labour'd  land. 

And  I  myfelf  new  marriages  promote. 

Give  laws;  and  dwellings  I  divide  by  lot. 

When  rifijig  vapours  choke  the  wholefom  air,         1 90 

And  blafts  of  noifom  winds  corrupt  the  year; 

The  trees,  devouring  caterpillars  burn : 

Parch'd  was  the  grafs,  and  blighted  was  the  com. 

Nor  fcape  the  beafts :  for  Sirius  from  on  high 

With  peftilential  heat  infedls  the  fky :  195 

My  men,  fome  fall,  the  reft  in  fevers  fry. 

Again  my  father  bids  me  feek  the  fhore 

Of  facred  Delos  and  the  god  implore : 

To  learn  what  end  of  woes  we  might  expefl,  ; 

And  to  what  clime  our  weary  courfe  dired.  200 

*Twas  night,  when  every  creature,  void  of  cares. 
The  common  gift  of  balmy  flumber  fhares : 
The  ftatues  cf  my  gods  (for  fuch  they  feem'd) 
Thofe  gods  whom  I  from  flaming  Troy  redeem'd. 
Before  me  ftood ;  majeftically  bright,  205 

Roll  in  the  beams  of  Phoebe's  entering  light. 
Then  thus  they  fpoke ;  and  eas'd  my  troubled  mind : 
What  froo)  ihe  Delian  god  thou  go 'ft  to  find> 

He. 


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4S  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

He  tells  thee  here ;  and  fends  us  to  relate : 

Thofe  powers  are  we,  companions  of  thy  fate,       21© 

Who  from  the  burning  town  by  thee  were  brought; 

Thy  fortune  follow'd,  and  thy  fafety  wrought. 

"Through  feas  and  lands  as  we  thy  fteps  attend. 

So  fhall  our  care  thy  glorious  race  befriend. 

An  ample  realm  for  thee  thy  fates  ordain ;  21^ 

A  town,  that  o'er  the  conquer'd  world  fhall  reign. 

Thou  mighty  walls  for  mighty  nations  build ; 

2^or  let  thy  weary  mind  to  labours  yield: 

But  change  thy  feat;  for  not  the  Delian  god. 

Nor  we,  have  giv'n  thee  Crete  for  our  abode,         220 

A  land  there  is,  Hefperia  calFd  of  old. 

The  foil  is  fruitful,  and  the  natives  bold. 

Th'  Oenotrians  held  it  once ;  by  later  fame. 

Now  call'd  Italia  from  the  leader's  name. 

Jafms  there,  and  Dardanus  were  born :  22  ? 

From  thence  we  came,  and  thither  muft  return. 

Rife,  and  thy  fire  with  thefe  glad  tidings  greet  j 

Search  Italy,  for  Jove  denies  thee  Crete. 

Aftonifh'd  at  their  voices,  and  their  fight, 
(Nor  were  they  dreams,  but  vifions  of  the  night;  230 
I  faw,  I  knew  their  faces,  and  defcry'd 
In  perfect  view  their  hair  with  fillets  ty'd) ; 
I  fi:arted  from  my  couch,  and  clammy  fweat 
On  all  my  limbs  and  fhivering  body  fate. 
To  heaven  I  lift  my  hands  with  pious  hafte,  2jj 

And  facred  incenfe  in  the  flames  I  caft. 
Thus  to  the  gods  their  perfeft  honours  done, 
JVIore  chearful  to  my  good  old  fire  I  run. 

And 


iENEIS^     BOOK    III.  45 

And  tell  the  pleafing  news :   in  little  fpace 

He  found  his  error  of  the  double  race.  240 

Not,  as  before  he  deem'd,  deriv'd  from  Crete; 

No  more  deluded  by  the  doubtful  feat. 

Then  faid,  O  fon!  turm-oil'd  in  Trojan  fate. 

Such  tilings  as  thefe  Caffandra  did  relate; 

This  day  revives  within  my  mind,  what  ihe  24^ 

Foretold  of  Troy  renew'd  in  Italy, 

And    Latian   lands:     but    who   could    then  have 

thouo;ht 
That  Phrygian  gods  to  Latium  fhould  be  brought  ? 
Or  who  believ'd  what  mad  Cafiandra  taught? 
Now  let  us  go,  where  Plioebus  leads  the  way,         250 
He  faid,  and  we  with  glad  confent  obey: 
Forfake  the  feat;  and,  leaving  few  behind. 
We  fpread  our  fails  before  the  willing  wind. 
Now  from  the  fight  of  land  our  gallies  move. 
With  only  feas  around,  and  fkies  above.  255 

When  o'er  our  heads  defcends  a  burll  of  rain. 
And  night,  v/ith  fable  clouds,  involves  the  main ; 
The  ruffling  winds  the  foamy  billows  raife ; 
The  fcatter'd  fleet  is  forc'd  to  feveral  ways; 
The  face  of  heaven  is  ravifh'd  from  our  eyes,         260 
And,  in  redoubled  peals,  the  roaring  thunder  flies. 
Call  from  our  courfe,  we  wander  in  the  dark; 
No  ftars  to  guide,  no  point  of  land  to  mark. 
Ev'n  Palinurus  no  diftinftion  found 
Betwixt  the  night  and  day,    fuch  darknefs  reign'd 

around. 
Vol.  XXIII.  E  Three 


50  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Three  ftarlefs  nights  the  doubtful  navy  ftrays 
Without  diftinflion,  and  three  funlefs  days. 
The  fourth  renews  the  light,  and^  from  our  fhrouds. 
We  view  a  rifing  land  like  diftant  clouds : 
The  mountain-tops  confirm  the  pleafing  fight,         270 
And  curling  fmoke  afcending  from  their  height. 
The  canvafs  falls,  their  oars  the  failors  ply. 
From  the  rude  ftrokes  the  whirling  waters  fly. 
At  length  I  land  upon  the  Strophades, 
Safe  from  the  danger  of  the  ftormy  feas :  275 

Thofe  ifles  are  compafs'd  by  th'  Ionian  main. 
The  dire  abode  where  the  foul  harpies  reign : 
Forc'd  by  the  winged  warriors  to  repair 
To  their  old  homes,  and  leave  their  collly  fare, 
Monfters  more  fierce,  offended  heaven  ne'er  fent    280 
From  hell's  abyfs,  for  human  puniihment. 
ArVith  virgin-faces,  but  with  wombs  obfcene,  -i 

Foul  paunches,  and  with  ordure  ftill  unclean:  I 

With  claws  for  hands,  and  looks  for  ever  lean,  J 

We  landed  at  the  port,  and  foon  beheld  285 

Fat  herds  of  oxen  graze  the  flowery  field ; 
And  wanton  goats  without  a  keeper  ftray'd; 
With  weapons  we  the  welcome  prey  invade. 
Then  call  the  gods  for  partners  of  our  feafl: : 
And  Jove  himfelf  the  chief  invited  guefi:.  290 

We  fpread  the  tables  on  the  greenfword  ground : 
W^e  feed  with  hunger,  and  the  bowls  go  round : 
When  from  the  mountain  tops,  with  hideous  cry. 
And  clattering  wings,  the  hungry  harpies  fly : 

5  They 


iENEIS.      BOOK    Iir.  51 

They  fnatch  the  meat,  defiling  all  they  find;  295" 

And,  parting,  leave  a  loathfome  ftench  behind, 

Clofe  by  a  hollow  rock  again  we  fit, 

Kew  drefs  the  dinner,  and  the  beds  refit; 

Secure  from  fight,  beneath  a  pleafing  fhade, 

\Vhere  tufted  trees  a  native  arbour  made.  3 00 

Again  the  holy  fires  on  altars  burn. 

And  once  again  the  ravenous  birds  return : 

Or  from  the  dark  recefifes  where  they  lie. 

Or  from  another  quarter  of  the  fky ; 

^Vith  filthy  claws  their  odious  meal  repeat,  305" 

And  mix  their  loathfome  ordures  with  their  meat. 

I  bid  my  friends  for  vengeance  then  prepare. 

And  with  the  hellifh  nation  wage  the  war. 

They,  as  commanded,  for  the  fight  provide. 

And  in  the  grafs  their  glittering  weapons  hide :       310 

Then,  when  along  the  crooked  fhore  we  hear 

Their  clattering  wings,  and  faw  the  foes  appear, 

Mifenus  founds  a  charge :   we  take  th'  alarm. 

And  our  ftrong  hands  with  fwords  and  bucklers  arm. 

In  this  new  kind  of  combat  all  employ  3 1'J 

Their  utmoft  force  the  monfters  to  deflroy. 

In  vain ;  the  fated  Ikin  is  proof  to  wounds : 

And,  from  their  plumes,  the  fhining  fword  rebounds. 

At  length,  TebufF'd,  they  leave  their  mangled  prey. 

And  their  firetch'd  pinions  to  the  Ikies  difphy,       320 

Yet  one  rem.ain'd  the  meffenger  of  Fate, 

Kigh  on  a  craggy  cliff  Celxno  fate. 

And  thus  her  difmal  errand  did  relate ; 

E  z  What, 


} 


} 


5«  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL; 

What,  not  contented  with  our  oxen  flain. 

Dare  you  with  heaven  an  impious  war  maintain.,  325 

And  drive  the  harpies  from  their  native  reign  ? 

Heed,  therefore,  what  I  fav,  and  keep  in  mind 

What  Jove  decrees,  what  Phoebus  has  defign'd; 

And  I,  the  Fury's  queen,  from  both  relate : 

You  feek  th'  Italian  ihores.,  foredoora'd  by  fate:     330 

Th'  Italian  ihores  are  granted  you  to  find. 

And  a  fafe  pafTage  to  the  port  aflign'd. 

But  know,  that  ere  your  promis'd  walls  you  build. 

My  curfes  fhall  feverely  be  fulfill'd. 

Fierce  famine  is  your  lot,  for  this  mifdeed,  335 

Reduc'd  to  grind  the  plates  on  which  you  feed. 

She  faid,  and  to  the  neighbouring  foreft  flew: 

Our  courage  fails  us,  and  our  fears  renew. 

Hopelefs  to  win  by  war,  to  prayers  we  fall. 

And  on  th'  oiFended  harpies  humbly  call.  340 

And  whether  gods  or  birds  obfcene  they  were. 

Our  vows  for  pardon  and  for  peace  prefer. 

But  old  Anchifes,  offering  facrifice. 

And  lifting  up  to  heaven  his  hands  and  eyes, 

Ador'd  the  greater  gods :  Avert,  faid  he,  345  ^ 

Thefe  omens ;  render  vain  this  prophecy ;  > 

And,  from  th'  impending  curfe,  a  pious  people  free. 

Thus  having  faid,  he  bids  us  put  to  fea; 

We  loofe  from  fhore  our  haufers  and  obey. 

And  foon,  with  fwelling  fails,  purfue  our  watery  way. 

Amidft  our  courfe  Zacynthian  woods  appear; 

And  next  by  rocky  Neritos  we  fteer ; 

We 


^way.J 


} 


JENEIS.      BOOK    III.  53 

We  fly  from  Ithaca's  detefted  fnore. 

And  curfe  the  land  which  dire  Ulyfles  bore. 

At  length  Leucate's  cloudy  top  appears,  ^^^ 

And  the  fun's  temple,  which  the  failor  fears. 

Rcfolv'd  to  breathe  a  while  from  labour  paft. 

Our  crooked  anchors  from  the  prow  we  caft. 

And  joyfal  to  the  little  city  hafte. 

Here  fafe,  beyond  our  hopes,-  our  vows  we  pay      360 

To  Jove,  the  guide  and  patron  of  our  way. 

The  cudoms  of  our  country  we  purfue. 

And  Trojan  games  on  Adian  fhores  renew. 

Our  youth  their  naked  limbs  befmear  with  oil. 

And  exercife  the  wreftlers  noble  toil.  $6^ 

Pleas'd  to  have  fail'd  fo  long  before  the  wind. 

And  left  fo  many  Grecian  towns  behind. 

The  fun  had  now  fulfill'd  his  annual  courfe. 

And  Boreas  on  the  feas  difplay'd  his  force; 

I  fix'd  upon  the  temple's  lofty  door  3  70 

The  brazen  fhield  which  vanquifh'd  Abas  bore : 

The  verfe  beneath  my  name  and  adlion  fpeaks, 

Thefe  arms  ^neas  took  from  conquering  Greeks. 

Then  I  command  to  weigh ;   the  feamen  ply 

Their  fweeping  oars,  the  fmoking  billows  fly.         375 

The  fight  of  high  Phaeacia  foon  we  loft. 

And  (kim'd  along  Epirus'  rocky  coaft. 

Then  to  Chaonia's  port  our  courfe  we  bend. 

And,  landed,  to  Buthrotus,  heights  afcend. 

Here  wondrous  things  were  loudly  blaz'd  by  fame,  380 

How  Helenus  reviv'd  the  Trojan  name, 

E  3  And 


54  DR  YD  EN'S    VIRGIL. 

And  reign'd  in  Greece:  That  Priam's  captive  fon 

Succeeded  Pyrrhus  in  his  bed  and  throne. 

And  fair  Andromache,  reftor'd  by  fate. 

Once  more  was  happy  in  a  Trojan  mate.  38^ 

I  leave  my  gallies  riding  In  the  port. 

And  long  to  fee  the  new  Dardanian  court. 

By  chance,  the  mournful  queen,  before  the  gate. 

Then  folemniz'd  her  former  hufband's  fate. 

Green  altars,  rais'd  of  turf,  with  gifts  (he  crown'd  'i 

And  facred  prlefts  in  order  ftand  around,  I 

And  thrice  the  name  of  haplefs  Fleftor  found,  J 

The  Q-rove  itfelf  refembles  Ida's  wood. 

And  Simois  feem'd  the  well-dliTembled  flood. 

But  when,  at  nearer  diftance,  fhe  beheld  ^^ 

My  Ihining  armour,  and  my  Trojan  fhield, 

Aftonifh'd  at  the  fight,  the  vital  heat 

Forfakes  her  limbs,  her  veins  no  longer  beat : 

She  faints,  fhe  falls ;  and,  fcarce  recovering  Hrength, 

Thus,  with  a  faultering  tongue,  fhe  fpeaks  at  length ; 

Are  you  alive,  O  goddefs-born !  fhe  faid. 
Or  if  a  ghofl,  then  where  is  Heftor's  fhade  ? 
At  this  fhe  caft  a  loud  and  frightful  cry : 
With  broken  words  I  made  this  brief  reply : 
All  of  me  that  remains  appears  in  fight.  40^ 

I  live;  if  living  be  to  loath  the  light. 
No  phantom;  but  I  drag  a  wretched  life; 
My  fate  refembling  that  of  Hector's  wife. 
What  have  you  fuiFer'd  fince  you  loft  your  lord  ? 
By  what  llrange  bleffings  are  you  now  reftor'd?      410 

StiU 


} 


iENEIS.     BOOK    III.  55 

Still  are  you  Hector's,  or  is  He»ftor  fled. 

And  his  remembrance  loll  in  Pyrrhus'  bed  ? 

With  eyes  dejeded,  in  a  lowly  tone. 

After  a  modeft  paufe,  fhe  thus  begun : 

Oh  only  happy  maid  of  Priam's  race,  41  j; 

Whom  death  deliver'd  from  the  foes  embrace! 

Commanded  on  Achilles'  tomb  to  die. 

Not  forc'd,  like  us,  to  hard  captivity; 

Or  in  a  haughty  mafi:er"s  arms  to  lie. 

In  Grecian  fhips  unhappy  we  were  borne :  420 

Endur'd  the  viftor"s  lull:;  fuftain'd  the  fcorn: 

Thus  I  fubmitted  to  the  lawlefs  pride 

Of  Pyrrhus,  more  a  handmaid  than  a  bride, 

Cloy'd  with  poiTeffion,  he  forfook  my  bed. 

And  Helen's  lovely  daughter  fought  to  wed,  42^ 

Then  me  to  Trojan  Helenus  rengn'd : 

And  his  two  Haves  in  equal  marriage  join'd. 

Till  young  Oreftes,  pierc'd  with  deep  defpair,  "j 

And  longing  to  redeem  the  promis'd  fair,  > 

Before  Apollo's  altar  flew  the  ravilher.  43°  J 

By  Pyrrhus'  death  the  kingdom  we  regain'd : 

At  lead  one  half  with  Helenus  remain'd ; 

Our  part,  from  Chaon,  he  Chaonia  calls  ; 

And  names,  from  Pergamus,  his  rifmg  walls. 

But  you,  what  Fates  have  landed  on  our  coaft,       45^ 

What  gods  have    fent    you,    or  what  llorras    have 

tofs'd? 
Does  young  Afcanius  life  and  health  enjoy, 
Sav'd  from  the  ruins  of  unhappy  Troy? 

E  4  O  tell 


S6  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

O  tell  me  how  his  mother's  lofs  he  bears,  t 

What  hopes  are  promis'd  from  his  blooming  years,    > 

How  much  of  Hector  in  his  face  appears  ?  J 

She  fpoke :  and  mix'd  her  fpeech  with  mournful  cries ; 

And  fruitlefs  tears  came  trickling  from  her  eyes. 

At  length  her  lord  defcends  upon  the  plain. 

In  pomp  attended  with  a  numerous  train :  445 

Receives  his  friends,  and  to  the  city  leads. 

And  tears  of  joy  amidil  his  welcome  Iheds, 

Proceeding  on,  another  Troy  I  fee; 

Or,  in  lefs  compafs,  Troy's  epitome. 

A  rivulet  by  the  name  of  Xanthus  ranr  4^0 

And  I  embrace  the  Sc^an  gate  again. 

My  friends  in  porticos  were  entertain'd, 

And  feafts  and  pleafures  through  the  city  relgn'd. 

The  tables  fdl'd  the  fpacious  hall  around. 

And  golden  bowls  with  fparkling  wine  were  crovrn  d. 

Two  days  we  pafs'd  in  mirth,   till  friendly  gales. 

Blown  from  the  fouth,  fupply'd  our  fwelling  fails. 

Then  to  the  royal  feer  I  thus  began : 

O  thou  who  know'ft,  beyond  the  reach  of  man. 

The  laws  of  heaven,  and  what  the  ftars  decree,  460 

Whom  Phoebus  taught  unerring  prophecy. 

From  his  own  tripod,  and  his  holy  tree: 

Skill'd  in  the  wing'd  inhabitants  of  air. 

What  aufpices  their  notes  and  flights  declare : 

O  fay ;  for  all  religious  rites  portend  465 

A  happy  voyage,  and  a  profperous  end ; 

And  every  power  and  omen  of  the  Iky 

DliQd  my  courfe  for  deftin'd  Italy, 

But 


} 


iENEIS.     BOOK    m.  57 

But  only  dire  Celaeno,  from  the  gods, 

A  difmal  famine  fatally  forebodes :  470 

O  fay  what  dangers  I  am  firfi  to  fhun. 

What  toils  to  vanquifh,  and  what  courfe  to  run. 

The  prophet  firfl  with  facrifice  adores 
The  greater  gods;  their  pardon  then  implores: 
Vnbinds  the  fillet  from  his  holy  head  j  475 1 

To  Phoebus  next  my  trembling  fteps  he  led,  > 

Full  of  religious  doubts  and  awful  dread.  J 

Then,  with  his  god  poffefs'd,  before  the  {hrine, 
Thefe  words  proceeded  from  his  mouth  divine : 
O  goddefs-born  (for  heaven's  appointed  will. 
With  greater  aufpices  of  good  than  ill, 
Fore-fnows  thy  voyage,  and  thy  courfe  dire6^s ; 
Thy  fates  confpire,  and  Jove  himfelf  protefts} : 
Of  many  things,  fome  few  I  fhall  explain,  "j 

Teach  thee  to  fhun  the  dangers  of  the  main,       485  }- 
And  how  at  length  the  promis'd  fhore  to  gain.  J 

The  refl  the  Fates  from  Helenus  conceal; 
And  Juno's  angry  power  forbids  to  tell. 
Firfl  then,  that  happy  fhore,  that  feems  fo  nigh,      n 
Will  far  from  your  deluded  wifhes  fly:  490  > 

Long  trads  of  feas  divide  your  hopes  from  Italy.     J 
For  you  mufl  cruife  along  Sicilian  fhores. 
And  ftem  the  currents  with  your  flruggling  oars : 
Then  round  th*  Italian  coafl  your  navy  fleer. 
And,  after  this,  to  Circe's  ifland  veer.  495 

And  lafl,  before  your  new  foundations  rife, 
Mufl  pafs  the  Stygian  lake,  and  view  the  nether  Ikies. 

Now 


5?  D  R  Y  D  E  N  '  S     VIRGIL,' 

Now  mark  the  figns  of  future  eafe  and  reft. 

And  bear  them  fafely  treafur'd  in  thy  breail, 

Vhen  in  the  fliady  fheher  of  a  wood,  500, 

And  near  the  margin  of  a  gentle  flood. 

Thou  fhalt  behold  a  fow  upon  the  ground. 

With  thirty  fucking  young  encompafs'd  round; 

The  dam  and  offspring  white  as  falling  fnow :  1 

Thefe  on  thy  city  (hall  their  name  beftow,  505  > 

And  there  Ihall  end  thy  labour  and  thy  woe.  J 

Nor  let  the  threaten'd  famine  fright  thy  mind. 

For  Phoebus  will  aHift,  and  fate  the  way  will  lirxd. 

Let  not  thy  courfe  to  that  ill  coall  be  bent. 

Which  fronts  from  far  th'  Epirian  continent;  510 

Thofe  parts  are  all  by  Grecian  foes  poffefs'd ; 

The  favage  Locrians  here  the  fhores  infeft. 

There  fierce  Idomeneus  his  city  builds. 

And  guards,  with  arms,  the  Salentinian  fields. 

And  on  the  mountain's  brow  Petilia  ftands,  51 J 

W'hich  Philoftetes  with  his  troops  commands. 

Ev'n  when  thy  fleet  is  landed  on  the  ihore. 

And  priells  with  holy  vows  the  gods  adore; 

Then  with  a  purple  veil  involve  your  eyes ; 

Let  hoflile  faces  blafl:  the  facrifice.  5 20 

Thefe  rites  and  cuftoms  to  the  reft  commend. 

That  to  your  pious  race  they  may  defcend. 

When  parted  hence,  the  wind  that  ready  waits 
For  Sicily,  fliall  bear  you  to  the  ftraits: 
Where  proud  Pelorus  opes  a  wider  way,  525 

Tack  to  the  larboard,  and  fland  off  to  fea ; 

Veer 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Iir.  59 

Veer  ftarboard  fea  and  land.     Th'  Italian  lliore. 

And  fair  Sicilia's  coaft  were  one,  before 

An  earthquake  caus"d  the  fiaw,  the  roaring  tides        "^ 

The  paffage  broke,  that  land  from  land  divides :    530  > 

And  where  the  lands  retir'd,  the  rufhing  ocean  rides.  J 

Diftinguifh'd  by  the  ftraits,  on  either  hand, 

Kow  riling  cities  in  long  order  {land. 

And  fruitful  fields  (fo  much  can  time  invade 

The  mouldering  work  that  beauteous  nature  madej.  535 

Far  on  the  right,  her  dogs  foul  Scylla  hides :  1 

Chaiybdis  roaring  on  the  left  prefides;  > 

And  in  her  greedy  whirlpool  fucks  the  tides :  J 

Then  fpouts  them  from  below ;  with  fury  driven. 

The  waves  mount  up,  and  wafli  the  face  of  heaven. 

But  Scylla  from  her  den,  with  open  jav/s,  540 

The  fmking  veffel  in  her  eddy  draws; 

Then  daihes  on  the  rocks :  a  human  face. 

And  virgin-bofom,  hides  her  tail's  difgrace. 

Her  parts  obfcene  below  the  waves  defcend,  545 

With  dogs  inclos'd,  and  in  a  dolphin  end, 

'Tis  fafer,  then,  to  bear  aloof  to  fea. 

And  coaft  Pachynus,  though  with  more  delay; 

Than  once  to  view  mifhapen  Scylla  near. 

And  the  loud  yell  of  watery  wolves  to  hear,  550 

Befides,  if  faith  to  Helenus  be  due. 
And  if  prophetic  Phoebus  tell  me  true, 
•  Do  not  this  precept  of  your  friend  forget : 
Which  therefore  more  than  once  I  muft  repeat. 
Above  the  reft,  great  Juno's  name  adore;  ^^^ 

Pay  vows  to  Juno;  Juno's  aid  implore. 

Let 


to  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL* 

Let  gifts  be  to  the  mighty  queen  defign'd ; 

And  mollify  with  prayers  her  haughty  mind. 

Thus,  at  the  length,  your  paffage  fhall  be  free. 

And  you  fhall  fafe  defcend  on  Italy.  560 

Arriv'd  at  Cumse,  when  you  view  the  flood 

Of  black  Avernus,  and  the  founding  wood. 

The  mad  prophetic  fibyl  you  fhall  find. 

Dark  in  a  cave,  and  on  a  rock  reclin'd. 

She  fmgs  the  fates,  and,  in  her  frantic  fits,  ^6^ 

The  notes  and  names  infcrib'd,  to  leaves  commits. 

What  fhe  commits  to  leaves,  in  order  laid. 

Before  the  cavern's  entrance  are  difplay'd: 

Unmov'd  they  fie:  but  if  a  blafl  of  wind 

Without,  or  vapours  ifTue  from  behind,  570 

The  leaves  are  borne  aloft  in  liquid  air. 

And  fhe  refumes  no  more  her  mufeful  care: 

Nor  gathers  from  the  rocks  her  fcatter'd  verfe : 

o 

Nor  fets  in  order  what  the  winds  difperfe. 

Tims,  many  not  fucceeding,  mofl  upbraid         575 

The  madnefs  of  the  vifionary  maid; 

And,  with  loud  curfes,  leave  the  myflic  fhade. 

Think  it  not  lofs  of  time  a  while  to  flay; 
Though  thy  companions  chide  thy  long  delay: 
Though  fummon*d  to  the  feas,.  though  pleafmg  gales 
Invite  thy  courfe,  and  flretch  thy  fwelling  fail^. 
But  beg  the  facred  prieflefs  to  relate 
With  fwelling  words,  and  not  to  write  thy  fate. 
The  fierce  Italian  people  fhe  will  fhow; 
And  all  thy  wars  and  all  thy  future  woe;  585 

And  what  thou  may'ft  avoid,  and  what  mull  undergo 

She 


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} 


She  {hall  direft  thy  courfe;  inftruft  thy  mhid; 
And  teach  thee  how  the  happy  Ihores  to  find. 
This  is  what  heaven  allows  me  to  relate: 
Now  part  in  peace;   purfue  thy  better  fate,         590 
And  raife,  by  ftrength  of  arms,  the  Trojan  ftate; 

This  when  the  prieft  with  friendly  voice  declar'd. 
He  gave  me  licenfe,  and  rich  gifts  prepared ; 
Bounteous  of  treafure,  he  fupply'd  my  want 
With  heavy  gold,  and  polifh'd  elephant.  ^gc 

Then  Dodonasan  caldrons  put  on  board. 
And  every  Ihip  with  Aims  of  filver  ftor'd, 
A  trufty  coat  of  mail  to  me  he  fert. 
Thrice  chain'd  with  gold,  for  ufe  and  ornament: 
The  helm  of  Pyrrhus  added  to  the  reft,  60O 

Then  flouriih'd  with  a  plume  and  waving  crefl. 
Nor  was  my  fire  forgotten,  nor  my  friends : 
And  large  recruits  he  to  my  navy  fends  j 
Men,  horfes,  captains,  arms,  and  warlike  ftores: 
Supplies  new  pilots,  and  new  fweeping  oars.  6oi 

Mean  time  my  fire  commands  to  hoift  our  fails  i 
Left  we  fliould  lofe-  the  firft  aufpicious  gales. 
The  prophet  bleft  the  parting  crew :  and  laft. 
With  words  Jike  thefe,  his  ancient  friend  embrac'd. 
Old  happy  man,  the  care  of  gods  above,  610 

Whom  heavenly  Venus  honoured  with  her  love. 
And  twice  preferv'd  thy  life  when  Troy  was  loft. 
Behold  from  far  the  wifh'd  Aufonian  coaft: 
There  land;  but  take  a  larger  compafs  round; 
JFor  that  before  is  all  forbidden  ground,  61 5 

The 


6a  DRYDEN*S    VIRGIL. 

The  fliore  that  Phcebus  has  defign'd  for  you. 

At  farther  diftance  lies,  conceal'd  from  view. 

Go  happy  hence,  and  feek  your  new  abodes ; 

Blefs'd  in  a  fon,  and  favour'd  by  the  gods: 

For  I  with  ufelefs  words  prolong  your  Hay;  620 

When  fouthern  gales  have  fummon'd  you  away. 

Nor  lefs  the  queen  our  parting  thence  deplor'd; 
Nor  was  lefs  bounteous  than  her  Trojan  lord. 
A  noble  prefent  to  my  fon  fhe  brought, 
A  robe  with  flowers  on  golden  tiffue  wrought;       62^ 
A  Phrygian  Neil;  and  loads,  with  gifts  befide 
Of  precious  texture,  and  of  Afian  pride. 
Accept,  fhe  faid,  thefe  monuments  of  love; 
Which  in  my  youth  with  happier  hands  I  wove : 
Regard  thefe  trifles  for  the  giver's  fake;  630 

'Tis  the  laft  prefent  Hedor's  wife  can  make. 
Thou  call'fl:  my  lofl  Allyanax  to  mind; 
In  thee  his  features  and  his  form  I  find. 
His  eyes  fo  fparkled  with  a  lively  flame ; 
Such  were  his  motions,  fuch  was  all  his  frame;    635: 
And,  ah!  had  heaven  fo  pleas "d,  his  years  had  been 
the  fame. 

With  tears  I  took  my  lafl  adieu,  and  faid. 
Your  fortune,  happy  fair,  already  made. 
Leaves  you  no  farther  wifli :  my  different  flate. 
Avoiding  one,  incurs  another  fate.  640 

To  you  a  quiet  feat  the  gods  allow. 
You  have  no  {hores  to  fearch,  no  feas  to  plow. 
Nor  fields  of  flying  Italy  to  chace : 
(Deluding  vifions,  and  a  vain  embrace!) 

You 


^NEIS.     BOOK    III.  63 

You  fee  another  Simois,  and  enjoy  645 

The  labour  of  your  hands,  another  Troy; 

With  better  aufpice  than  her  ancient  towers. 

And  lefs  obnoxious  to  the  Grecian  powers. 

If  e'er  the  gods,  whom  I  with  vows  adore, 

Condu<5l  my  fteps  to  Tiber's  happy  Ihore:  650 

If  ever  I  afcend  the  Latian  throne. 

And  build  a  city  I  may  call  my  own. 

As  both  of  us  our  birth  from  Troy  derive,  "j 

So  let  our  kindred  lines  in  concord  live;    ,  >• 

And  both  in  adls  of  equal  friendlhip  ftrive.         655  J 

Our  fortunes,  good  or  bad,  ihall  be  the  fame. 

The  double  Troy  Ihall  differ  but  in  name : 

That  what  we  now  begin,  may  never  end ; 

Eut  long,  to  late  poflerity  defcend. 

Near  the  Ceraunian  rocks  our  courfe  we  bore     660 
(The  Ihorteft  paffage  to  th'  Italian  fhore). 
Kow  had  the  fun  withdrawn  his  radiant  light. 
And  hills  were  hid  in  dufky  fhades  of  night. 
We  land :  and,  on  the  bofom  of  the  ground, 
A  fafe  retreat  and  a  bare  lodging  found; 
Clofe  by  the  ihore  we  lay ;  the  failors  keep 
Their  watches,  and  the  reft  fecurely  fleep. 
The  night,  proceeding  on  with  filent  pace,  "j 

Stood  in  her  noon,  and  view'd  with  equal  face  > 

Her  fteepy  rife,  and  her  declining  race.  670  J 

Then  wakeful  Palinurus  rofe,  to  fpy  1 

The  face  of  heaven,  and  the  nodurnal  fky;  r 

And  liilen'd  every  breath  of  air  to  try;  J 

Obfeives 


64  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Obfen^es  the  ftars,  and  notes  their  Aiding  courfe. 

The  Pleiads,  Hyads,  and  their  watery  force;         67^ 

And  both  the  bears  is  careful  to  behold; 

And  bright  Orion  arnj'd  with  burnifh'd  gold. 

Then,  when  he  faw  no  threatening  tempeft  nigh. 

Bat  a  fure  promife  of  a  fettled  Iky; 

He  gave  the  fign  to  weigh:  we  break  our  fleep;      680 

Forfake  the  pleafing  fhore,  and  plow  the  deep. 

And  now  the  rifing  morn,  with  rofy  light. 

Adorns  the  ikies,  and  puts  the  ftaxs  to  flight : 

V-'hen  we  from  far,  like  bluifh  miils,  defcry 

The  hills,  and  then  the  plains  of  Italy.  685* 

Achates  firft  pronounc'd  the  joyful  found; 

Then  Italy  the  chearful  crew  rebound; 

My  fire  Anchifes  crown'd  a  cup  with  wine. 

And  offering,  thus  implor'd  the  pov/ers  divines 

Ye  gods,  prefiding  over  lands  and  feas,  690 

And  you  who  raging  winds  and  waves  appeafe. 

Breathe  on  our  fwelling  fails  a  profperous  wind. 

And  fmooth  our  paflage  to  the  port  aflign'd. 

The  gentle  gales  their  flagging  force  renew; 

And  now  the  happy  harbour  is  in  view.  695 

Minerva's  temple  then  falutes  our  fight; 

Plac'd  as  a  land-mark,  on  the  mountain's  height; 

We  furl  our  fails,  and  turn  the  prows  to  fhore-; 

The  curling  waters  round  the  galleys  roar; 

The  land  lies  open  to  the  raging  eafl:,  700 

Then,  bending  like  a  bow,  with  rocks  comprefs'd. 

Shuts  out  the  llorms ;  the  winds  and  waves  complain. 

And  vent  their  malice  on  the  cliiFs  in  vain. 

The 


^NEIS.     BOOK    III.  6s 

The  port  lies  hid  within ;  on  either  fide 
Two  towering  rocks  the  narrow  mouth  divide.       705" 
The  temple,  which  aloft  we  view'd  before. 
To  diftance  flies,  and  feems  to  fhun  the  Ihore, 
Scarce  landed,  the  firft  omens  I  beheld 
Were  four  white  fteeds  that  cropp'd  the  flowery  field. 
War,  war  is  threaten 'd  from  this  foreign  ground,  710 
(My  father  cry'd)  where  warlike  fteeds  are  found. 
Yet,  fmce  reclaimed  to  chariots  they  fubmit. 
And  bend  to  fl:ubbom  yokes,  and  champ  the  bit. 
Peace  may  fucceed  to  war.     Our  way  we  bend 
To  Pallas,  and  the  facred  hills  afcend.  ^i^ 

There  proftrate  to  the  fierce  virago  pray; 
Whofe  temple  was  the  land-mark  of  our  way. 
Each  with  a  Phrj^gian  mantle  veil'd  his  head; 
And  all  commands  of  Helenus  obey'd ; 
And  pious  rites  to  Grecian  Juno  paid.  720. 

Thefe  dues  performed,  we  ftretch  our  fails,  and  ftand 
To  fea,  forfaking  that  fufpeded  land. 
From  hence  Tarentum's  bay  appears  in  view; 
For  Hercules  renown'd,  if  fame  be  true, 
Juft  oppofite,  Lacirdan  Juno  ftands :  725 

Caulonian  towers,  and  Scylacsan  ftrands 
For  Ihipwrecks  fear'd :  Mount  ^Etna  thence  we  fpy. 
Known  by  the  fmoky  flames  which  cloud  the  Iky, 
Far  off  we  hear  the  waves  with  furly  found 
Invade  the  rocks,  the  rocks  their  groans  rebound,  730 
The  billows  break  upon  the  founding  ftrand; 
And  roll  the  rifing  tide,  impure  with  fand. 
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€6  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Then  thus  Anchifes,  in  experience  old, 

'Tis  that  Charybdis  which  the  feer  foretold : 

And  thofe  the  promis'd  rocks;  bear  off  to  fea;        ^^r 

With  hafte  the  frighted  mariners  obey, 

Firft  Palinurus  to  the  larboard  veer'd; 

Then  all  the  fleet  by  his  example  fteer'd. 

To  heaven  aloft  on  ridgy  waves  we  ride; 

Then  down  to  hell  defcend,  when  they  divide.       740 

And  thrice  our  gallies  knock'd  the  ftony  ground. 

And  thrice  the  hollow  rocks  return 'd  the  found. 

And  thrice  we  faw  the  flars,  that  flood  with  dews 

around. 

The  flagging  winds  forfook  us  with  the  fun ; 
And,  weary 'd,  on  Cyclopean  Ihores  we  run.  74  r 

The  port  capacious,  and  fecure  from  wind. 
Is  to  the  foot  of  thundering  -^tna  join'd. 
By  turns  a  pitchy  cloud  flie  rolls  on  high  ; 
By  turns  hot  embers  from  her  entrails  fly ; 
And  flakes  of  mounting  flames,  that  lick  the  fky 
Oft  from  her  bowels  maflTy  rocks  are  thrown. 
And  fliiver'd  by  the  force  come  piece-meal  down. 
Oft  liquid  lakes  of  burning  fulphur  flow. 
Fed  from  the  fiery  fprlngs  that  boil  below, 
Enceladus,  they  fay,  transfix'd  by  Jove,  *jrr 

With  blafl:ed  limbs  came  trembling  from  above : 
And  where  he  fell,  th'  avenging  father  drew 
This  flaming  hill,  and  on  his  body  threw : 
As  often  as  he  turns  his  weary  fides. 
He  fnakes  the  folid  ifle,  and  fmoke  the  heavens  hides* 

In 


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fght;  I 


In  lliady  woods  we  pafs  the  tedious  night. 

Where  bellowing  founds  and  groans  our  fouls  afFric 

Of  which  no  caufe  is  olfer"d  to  the  fight. 

For  not  one  ftar  was  kindled  in  the  (ley; 

Nor  could  the  moon  her  borrow'd  light  fupply :     76^ 

For  mifty  clouds  involv'd  the  firmament; 

The  ftars  were  muffled,  and  the  moon  was  pent. 

Scarce  had  the  rinng  fun  the  day  reveal'd; 

Scarce  had  his  heat  the  pearly-dews  difpell'd; 

When  from  the  woods  there  bolts,  before  our  fight. 

Somewhat  betwixt  a  mortal  and  a  fpright. 

So  thin,  fo  ghaftly  meagre,  and  fo  wan. 

So  bare  of  flefh,  he  fcarce  refembled  man. 

This  thing,  all  tatter'd,  feem'd  from  far  t'  implore 

Our  pious  aid,  and  pointed  to  the  Ihore.  77j^ 

We  look  behind;  then  view  his  Ihaggy  beard; 

His  cloaths  were  tagg'd  with  thorns,  and  filth  his  limbs 

befmear'd; 
The  reft,  in  mien,  in  habit,  and  in  face, 
Appear'd  a  Greek,  and  fuch  indeed  he  was. 
He  cajQi^on  us,  from  far,  a  frightful  view,  780 

Whom  foon  for  Trojans  and  for  foes  he  knew : 
Stood  ftill,  and  paus'd;  thence  all  at  once  began 
To  ftretch  his  limbs,  and  trembled  as  he  ran. 
Soon  as  approach'd,  upon  his  knees  he  falls. 
And  tltus,  with  tears  and  lighs,  for  pity  calls;       785 
Kow  by  the  powers  above,  and  what  we  fhare 
From  nature's  common  gift,  this  vital  air, 
O  Trojans,  take  me  hence;  I  beg  no  more. 
But  bear  me  far  from  this  unhappy  (here! 

F  2  'Tis 


6«  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

'Tis  true,  I  am  a  Greek,  and  farther  own,  *^go 

Among  your  foes  befieg'd  th'  imperial  town; 

For  fuch  demerits  if  my  death  be  due. 

No  more  for  this  abandon 'd  life  I  fue: 

This  only  favour  let  my  tears  obtain. 

To  throw  me  headlong  in  the  rapid  main :  *^g^ 

Since  nothing  more  than  death  my  crime  demands: 

I  die  content,  to  die  by  human  hands. 

He  faid,  and  on  his  knees  my  knees  embrac'd: 

I  bade  him  boldly  tell  his  fortune  paft; 

His  prefent  Hate,  his  lineage,  and  his  name;  8oo 

Th'  occafion  of  his  fears,  and  whence  he  came. 

The  good  Anchifes  rais'd  him  with  his  hand; 

Who,  thus  encourag'd,  anfwer'd  our  demand; 

From  Ithaca  my  native  foil  I  came 

To  Troy,  and  Achxmenides  my  name.  805 

Me,  my  poor  father  with  UlyfTes  fent ; 

(Oh  had  I  llay'd  with  poverty  content!) 

But,  fearful  for  themfelves,  my  countrymen 

I^ft  me  forfaken  in  the  Cyclops'  den. 

The  cave,  though  large,  was  dark ;  the  difmal  iloor 

Was  pav'd  with  mangled  limbs  and  putrid  gore. 

Our  monftrous  hoft,  of  m.ore  than  human  lize, 

Erefts  his  head,  and  flares  within  the  Ikies, 

Bellowing  his  voice,  and  horrid  is  his  hue. 

Ye  gods,  i^move  this  plague  from  m.ortal  view  J,    815 

The  joints  of  flaughter'd  wretches  are  his  food ; 

And  for  his  wine  he  quaffs  the  llreaming  blood. 

Thefe  eyes  beheld,  when  with  his  fpacious  hand 

Ke  feiz'd  two  captives  of  our  Grecian  band; 

Stretch 'd 


^NEIS.     BOOK    III.  69 

Stretch'd  on  his  back,  he  dafh*d  againft  the  ftones  820 

Their  broken  bodies,  and  their  crackJing  bones : 

With  fpouting  blood  the  purple  pavement  fwims. 

While  the  dire  glutton  grinds  the  trembling  limbs, 

Kot  unreveng'd,  UI}  ffes  bore  their  fate 

Nor  thoughtlefs  of  his  own  unhappy  ftate;  82^ 

For,  gorg'd  with  flefh,  and  drunk  with  human  wine. 

While  faft  aileep  the  giant  lav  fupine : 

Snoring  aloud,  and  belching  from  his  maw 

His  indigefted  foam,  and  raorfels  raw : 

We  pray,  we  caft  the  lots,  and  then  furround         830 

The  monftrous  body,  ftretch'd  along  the  ground: 

Each,  as  he  could  approach  him,  lends  a  hand 

To  bore  his  eyeball  with  a  flaming  brand : 

Beneath  his  frowning  forehead  lay  his  eye 

(For  only  one  did  the  vail  frame  fupply);  S^^ 

But  that  a  globe  fo  large,  his  front  it  fill'd. 

Like  the  fun's  difk,  or  like  a  Grecian  fhield. 

The  ftroke  fucceeds;  and  down  the  pupil  bends; 

This  vengeance  follow 'd  for  our  flaughterd  friends. 

But  hafte,  unhappy  wretches,  halle  to  fly;  840 

Your  cables  cut,  and  on  your  oars  rely. 

Such  and  fo  vail  as  Polypheme  appears, 

A  hundred  more  this  hated  ifland  bears ; 

Like  him,  in  caves  they  fhut  their  woolly  fheep; 

Like  him,  their  herds  on  tops  of  mountains  keep;  845 

Like  him,  with  mighty  ftrides,  they  ftalk  from  lleep 

to  lleep. 

And  now  three  moons  their  fharpen'd  horns  renew. 
Since  thus  in  woods  and  wilds,  obfcure  from  view, 

F  3  I  drag 


70  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

I  drag  my  loathfome  days  with  mortal  fright; 
And,  in  deferted  caverns,  lodge  by  night,  850 

Oft  from  the  rocks  a  dreadful  profpeft  fee 
Of  the  huge  Cyclops,  like  a  walking  tree: 
From  far  I  hear  his  thundering  voice  refound; 
And  trampling  feet  that  Ihake  the  folid  ground. 
Cornels  and  favage  berries  of  the  wood,  85*5 

And  roots  and  herbs,  have  been  my  meagre  food. 

While  all  around  my  longing  eyes  are  cail-, 
I  faw  your  happy  Ihips  appear  at  laft : 
On  thofe  I  fix'd  my  hopes,  to  thefe  I  run, 
'Tis  all  I  alk,  this  cruel  race  to  fhun:  S60 

What  other  death  you  pleafc  yourfelves,  befiow. 
Scarce  had  he  faid,  when,  on  the  mountain's  brow, 
W^e  faw  the  giant-lhepherd  llalk  before 
His  following  flock,  and  leading  to  the  {hore, 
A  monftrous  bulk,  deform "d,  depriv'd  of  fight,      865 
His  ftaff  a  trunk  of  pine  to  guide  his  fteps  aright. 
His  ponderous  whiftle  from  his  neck  defcends ; 
His  woolly  care  their  penfive  lord  attends : 
This  only  folace  his  hard  fortune  fends. 
Soon  as  he  reach'd  the  fhore,  and  touch'd  the  waves. 
From  his  bor'd  eye  the  guttering  blood  he  laves : 
He  gnafh'd  his  teeth  and  groan'd ;  through  feas  he 

ftrides. 
And  fcarce  the  topmaft  billows  touch  his  fides, 

Seiz'd  with  a  fudden  fear,  we  run  to  fea. 
The  cables  cut,  and  f.lent  haile  away:  87^ 

The  well-deferving  ftranger  entertain; 
Thenj  buckling  to  the  work,  our  oars  divide  the  main. 

The 


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iENEIS.     BOOK    Iin  71 

The  giant  hearken'd  to  the  dafhing  found : 

But  when  our  veffels  out  of  reach  he  found. 

He  ftiided  onward;  and  in  vain  eflay'd  ^       880 

Th'  Ionian  deep,  and  durft  no  farther  wade. 

With  that  he  roar'd  aloud :   the  dreadful  cry  i 

Shakes  earth,  and  air,  and  feas ;  the  billows  fly,         > 

Before  the  bellowing  noife,  to  difiant  Italy.  J 

The  neighbouring  Mtna.  trembling  all  around :        885" 

The  windins:  caverns  echo  to  the  found. 

His  brother  Cyclops  hear  the  yelling  roar; 

And,  rulhing  down  the  mountains,  croud  the  fhore. 

We  faw  their  ftern  diftorted  looks  from  far. 

And  one-ey'd  glance,  that  vainly  threaten'd  war,    890 

A  dreadful  council  with  their  heads  on  high ; 

The  mifty  clouds  about  their  foreheads  fiy : 

Not  yielding  to  the  towering  tree  of  Jove, 

Or  talleft  cyprefs  of  Diana's  grove. 

New  pangs  of  mortal  fear  our  minds  affail,         89  j-  ^ 

We  tug  at  every  oar,  and  hoift  up  every  fail;  y 

And  take  th'  advantage  of  the  friendly  gale,  J 

Forewarn'd  by  Helerius,  we  ftrive  to  fhun 

Charybdis'  gulph,  nor  dare  to  ScyUa  run. 

An  equal  fate  on  either  fide  appears;  500 

We,  tacking  to  the  left,  are  free  from  fears : 

For  from  Pelonis'  point,  the  north  arofe. 

And  drove  us  back  where  fvvift  Pantagias  flows. 

His  rocky  mouth  we  pafs,  and  make  our  way 

By  Thapfus,  and  Megara's  winding  bay;  ^0^ 

This  pafTage  Achasmenides  had  fhown. 

Tracing  the  courfe  which  he  before  had  run, 

F  4  Right 


7»  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

Right  o'er  agalnft  Plemmyrlum's  watery  ftrand 

There  lies  an  ifle,  once  call'd  th'  Ortygian  land : 

Alpheus,  as  old  fame  reports,  has  found  gio 

From  Greece  a  fecret  paifage  under  ground: 

By  love  to  beauteous  Arethufa  led. 

And  mingling  here,  they  roll  in  the  fame  facred  bed. 

As  Helenus  enjoin 'd,  we  next  adore 

Diana's  name,  proteclrefs  of  the  fhore.  oi  c 

With  prcfperous  gales  we  pafs  the  quiet  founds 

Of  ftill  Elorus,  and  his  fruitful  bounds. 

Then  doubling  Cape  Pachynus,  we  furvey 

The  rocky  (hore  extended  to  the  fea. 

The  town  of  Caraarine  from  far  we  fee :  020 

And  fenny  lake  undrain'd  by  fates  decree. 

In  fight  of  the  Geloan  fields  we  pafs. 

And  the  large  walls,  where  mighty  Gela  was : 

Then  Agragas  with  lofty  fummits  crown'd; 

Long  for  the  race  of  warlike  Heeds  renown 'd:        925 
We  pafs'd  Selinus,  and  the  palmy  land. 

And  V.  IJely  fhun  the  Lily  bean  ftrand. 

Unfafe,  for  fecret  rocks,  and  moving  fand. 

At  length  on  fhore  the  weary  fleet  arriv'd: 

Which  Drepanum's  unhappy  port  receiv'd,  930 

Here,  after  endlefs  labours,  often  toft 

By  raging  ftorms,  and  driven  on  every  coaft. 

My  dear,  dear  father,  fpent  with  age,  I  loft. 

Eafe  of  my  cares  and  folace  of  my  pain, 

Sav'd  through  a  thoufand  toils,  but  fav'd  in  vain,  93  c; 

The  prophet,  who  my  future  woes  reveal'd. 

Yet  this,  the  greateft  and  the  worft  conceal'd. 

And 


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iENEIS.     BOOK    IIL  73 

And  dire  Celaeno,  whofe  foreboding  fkill 
Denounc'd  all  elfe,  was  filent  of  this  ill: 
This  my  laft  labour  was.     Some  friendly  god         940 
From  thence  convey'd  us  to  your  bleft  abode. 

Thus,  to  the  lifiening  queen,  the  royal  guefl 
His  wandering  courfe,  and  all  his  toils  exprefs'd. 
And  here  concluding,  he  retired  to  reft. 


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THE    ARGUMENT. 

Dido  difcovers  to  her  filler  her  paffion  for  ^neas,  and 
her  thoughts  of  marrying  him :  fhe  prepares  a  hunt- 
ing-match for  his  entertainment.  Juno,  by  Venus's 
confent,  raifes  a  ftorm,  which  feparates  the  hunters, 
and  drives  ^Eneas  and  Dido  into  the  fame  cave, 
where  their  marriage  is  fuppofed  to  be  compleated. 
Jupiter  difpatches  Mercury  to  -(Eneas,  to  warn  him 
from  Carthage:  ^neas  fecretly  prepares  for  his 
voyage :  Dido  finds  out  his  defign ;  and,  to  put  a  flop 
to  it,  makes  ufe  of  her  own  and  her  filler's  intrea- 
ties,  and  difcovers  all  the  variety  of  paflions  that 
are  incident  to  a  negleded  lover:  when  nothing 
would  prevail  upon  him,  fhe  contrives  her  own  death, 
with  which  this  book  concludes, 

BUT 


JENEIS.     BOOK    IV.  75 

TJ  U  T  anxious  cares  already  felz'd  the  queen : 

-*-'  She  fed  within  her  veins  a  flame  unfeen : 

The  hero's  valour,  zdis^  and  birth,  infpire 

Her  foul  with  love,  and  fan  the  fecret  fire. 

His  words,  his  looks  imprinted  in  her  heart,  ^ 

Improve  the  paffion,  and  increafe  the  fmart. 

Now  when  the  purple  morn  had  chas'd  away 

The  dewy  fhadows,  and  reftor'd  the  day. 

Her  filler  firft  with  early  care  fhe  fought. 

And  thus,  in  mournful  accents,  eas'd  her  thought:    lo 

My  deareft  Anna,  what  new  dreams  affright 

My  labouring  foul;  what  vifions  of  the  night 

Difturb  my  quiet,  and  diftraft  my  breaft 

With  flrange  ideas  of  our  Trojan  gueft? 

His  worth,  his  aftions,  and  majeftic  air,  15 

A  man  defcended  from  the  gods  declare, 

Fear  ever  argues  a  degenerate  kind,  ^ 

His  birth  is  well  aiferted  by  his  mind. 

Then  what  he  fuffer'd,  when  by  Fate  betray 'd. 

What  brave  attempts  for  falling  Troy  he  made !        20 

Such  were  his  looks-,  fo  gracefully  he  fpoke. 

That,  were  I  not  refolv'd  againft  the  yoke 

Of  haplefs  marriage,  never  to  be  curs'd 

With  fecond  love,  fo  fatal  was  my  firft. 

To  this  one  error  I  might  yield  again;  25 

For  fince  Sichaeus  was  untimely  flain. 

This  only  m.an  is  able  to  fubvert 

The  fix'd  foundations  of  ray  ftubborn  heart. 

And,  to  confefs  my  frailty,  to  my  fhame. 

Somewhat  I  find  within,  if  not  the  fame,  30 

Too  like  the  fparkles  of  my  former  flame. 

But 


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76  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

But  firft,  let  yawning  earth  a  paflage  rend. 
And  let  me  through  the  dark  abyfs  defcend : 
Firfl:  let  avenging  Jove,   with  flames  from  high,        "] 
Drive  down  this  body  to  the  nether  fky,  35  > 

Condemn'd.  with  gholls  in  endlefs  night  to  lie,  J 

Before  I  break  the  plighted  faith  I  gave :  1 

No;  he  who  had  my  vows,  fhall  ever  have;  > 

For  whom  I  lov'd  on  earth,  I  worfhip  in  the  grave.  J 

She  faid :  the  tears  ran  gulhing  from  her  eyes,      40 
And  ftopp'd  her  fpeech.     Her  filler  thus  replies : 

0  dearer  than  the  vital  air  I  breathe. 

Will  you  to  grief  your  blooming  years  bequeath  ? 
Condemn'd  to  wafte  in  woes  your  lonely  life. 
Without  the  joys  of  mother  or  of  wife  ? 
Think  you  thefe  tears,  this  pompous  train  of  woe. 
Are  knov/n  or  valued  by  the  ghoft  below  ? 

1  grant,  that  while  your  forrows  yet  were  green. 
It  well  became  a  woman  and  a  queen 

The  vows  of  Tyrian  princes  to  negle<^. 

To  fcom  larbas,  and  his  love  rejed; 

W^ith  all  the  Libyan  lords  of  mighty  name; 

But  will  you  fight  againft  a  pleafmg  flame? 

This  little  fpot  of  land,  which  heaven  beftows. 

On  every  flde  is  hemm'd  with  warlike  foes :  55 

Getulian  cities  here  are  fpread  around ; 

And  fierce  Numidians  there  your  frontiers  bound; 

Here  lies  a  barren  wafte  of  thirfty  land. 

And  there  the  Syrtes  raife  the  moving  fand : 

Barcasan  troops  befiege  the  narrow  Ihore,  60 

And  from  the  fea  Pygmalion  threatens  more. 

Pro- 


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^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    IV.  ;7 

Propitious  heaven,  and  gracious  Juno,  lead 

This  wandering  navy  to  your  needful  aid ; 

How  will  your  empire  fpread,  your  city  rife 

From  fuch  an  union,  and  with  fuch  allies!  6^ 

Implore  the  favour  of  the  powers  above. 

And  leave  the  conduifl  of  the  red  to  love. 

Continue  ftill  your  hofpitable  way. 

And  ilill  invent  occafions  of  their  ftay ; 

Till  ftorms  and  winter  winds  Ihall  ceafe  to  threat,     ^o 

And  planks  and  oars  repair  their  fhatter'd  fleet. 

Thefe  words,  which  from  a  friend  and  filler  came. 

With  eafe  refolv'd  the  fcruples  of  her  fame. 

And  added  fury  to  the  kindled  flame. 

Infpir'd  with  hope,  tlie  projedl  they  purfue;  75 

On  every  altar  facrifice  renew  : 

A  chofen  ewe  of  two-years  old  they  pay 

To  Ceres,  Bacchus,  and  the  god  of  day: 

Preferring  Juno's  power :  for  Juno  ties 

The  nuptial  knot,  and  makes  the  marriage  joys,       80 

The  beauteous  queen  before  her  altar  ftands. 

And  holds  the  golden  goblet  in  her  hands. 

A  milk-white  heifer  flie  with  flowers  adorns. 

And  pours  the  ruddy  wine  betwixt  her  horns; 

And  while  the  priefts  with  prayer  the  gods  invoke,  85 

She  feeds  their  altars  with  Sabiean  fmoke. 

With  hourly  care  the  facrif  ce  renev/s. 

And  anxioufly  the  panting  entrails  views. 

What  prieftly  rites,  alas !  what  pious  art. 

What  vows  avail  to  cure  a  bleeding  heart! 

A  gentle 


Ct 


7«  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

A  gentle  fire  Ihe  feeds  within  her  veins. 
Where  the  foft  god  fecure  in  filence  reigns. 

Sick  with  defire,  and  feeking  him  fhe  loves. 
From  flreet  to  ftreet  the  raving  Dido  roves. 
So  when  the  watchful  Ihepherd  from  the  blind,         9^ 
Wounds  with  a  random  fhaft  the  carelefs  hind, 
Diilrafted  with  her  pain  fne  fiies  the  woods. 
Bounds  o'er  the  lawn,  and  feeks  the  filent  floods; 
With  fruitlefs  care;  for  ftill  the  fatal  dart 
Sticks  in  her  fide,  and  rankles  in  her  heart.  1 00 

And  now  ftie  leads  the  Trojan  chief  along 
The  lofty  walls,  amidft  the  bufy  throng; 
Difplays  her  Tyrian  v/ealth  and  rifmg  town. 
Which  love,  without  his  labour,  makes  his  own. 
This    pomp    Ihe    fhows    to    tempt   her    wandering 
gueft ;  1 05 

Her  faltering  tongue  forbids  to  fpeak  the  refi:. 
When  day  declines,  and  feails  renew  the  night. 
Still  on  his  face  (he  feeds  her  famifh'd  iio-ht : 
She  longs  again  to  hear  the  prince  relate 
His  own  adventures,  and  the  Trojan  fate:  110 

He  tells  it  o'er  and  o'er:  but  ftill  in  vain; 
For  ftill  fhe  bes:s  to  hear  it  once  ao^ain. 
The  hearer  on  the  fpeaker's  mouth  depends ; 
And  thus  the  tragic  ftory  never  ends. 

Thus,  when  they  part,  when  Phoebe's  paler  light  1 1  ^ 
Withdraws,  and  falling  ftars  to  fleep  invite. 
She  laft  remains,  when  every  gueft  is  gone. 
Sits  on  the  bed  he  prefs'd,  and  fighs  alone; 

Abfent 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    IV.  7^ 

Abfent,  her  abfent  hero  fees  and  hears. 
Or  in  her  bofom  young  Afcanius  bears : 
And  feeks  the  father's  image  in  the  child. 
If  love  by  likenefs  might  be  fo  beguil'd. 

Mean  time  the  rinng  towers  are  at  a  Hand : 
No  labours  exercife  the  youthful  band  : 
Nor  ufe  of  arts  nor  toils  of  arms  they  know;  12^ 

The  mole  is  left  unfiniih'd  to  the  foe. 
The  mounds,  the  works,  the  walls,  negleded  lie. 
Short  of  their  promis'd  height  that  feem'd  to  threat  the 
Iky. 
But  when  imperial  Juno,  from  above. 
Saw  Dido  fetter'd  in  the  chains  of  love;  130 

Hot  with  the  venom  which  her  veins  inSam'd, 
And  by  no  fenfe  of  Ihame  to  be  reclaim'd. 
With  foothing  words  to  V'^enus  ftie  begun : 
High  praifes,  endlefs  honours  you  have  won. 
And  mighty  trophies  with  your  worthy  fon:  135 

Two  gods  a  filly  woman  have  undone. 
Nor  am  I  ignorant,  you  both  fufpect 
This  rifing  city,  which  my  hands  erefl: 
But  fhall  celeftial  difcord  never  ceafe? 
'Tis  better  ended  in  a  lafting  peace.  140 

You  ftand  poffefsd  of  all  your  foul  defir'd; 

Poor  Dido,  with  confuming  love,  is  fir'd: 

Your  Trojan  with  my  Tyrian  let  us  join. 

So  Dido  (hall  be  yours,  ^neas  mine : 

One  common  kingdom,  one  united  line. 

Eliza  (hall  a  Dardan  lord  obey. 

And  lofty  Carthage  for  a  dower  convey. 

5  Then 


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JO  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

Then  Venus,  who  her  hidden  fraud  defcry'd, 

(Which  would  the  fceptre  of  the  world  mifguide 

To  Libyan  fhores),  thus  artfully  reply 'd: 

Who  but  a  fool  would  wars  with  Juno  choofe. 

And  fuch  alliance  and  fuch  gifts  refufe  ? 

If  Fortune  with  our  joint  defires  comply: 

The  doubt  is  all  from  Jove,  and  Deftiny; 

Left  he  forbid  with  abfolute  command,  j^^ 

To  mix  the  people  in  one  common  land. 

Or  will  the  Trojan  and  the  Tyrian  line. 

In  lafting  leagues  and  fure  fucceffion  join? 

But  you,  the  partner  of  his  bed  and  throne. 

May  move  his  mind ;  my  wifhes  are  your  own.      i  So 

Mine,  faid  imperial  Juno,  be  the  care; 

Time  urges  now  to  perfeft  this  affair : 

Attend  my  counfel,  and  the  fecret  fhare. 

When  next  the  fun  his  riling  light  difplays. 

And  gilds  the  world  below  with  purple  rays ;  1 6^ 

The  queen,  JEntas,  and  the  Tyrian  court. 

Shall  to  the  fhady  woods,  for  fylvan  game,  refort. 

There,  while  the  huntfmen  pitch  their  toils  around. 

And  chearful  horns,  from  fide  to  fide,  refound, 

A  pitchy  cloud  fhall  cover  all  the  plain  1 70 

With  hail  and  thunder,  and  tempeftuous  rain : 

The  fearful  train  fhall  take  their  fpeedy  flight, 

DIfpers'd,  and  all  involv'd  in  gloomy  night; 

One  cave  a  grateful  fhelter  Ihall  afford 

To  the  fair  princefs  and  the  Trojan  lord.  1 75 

I  will  myfelf  the  bridal  bed  prepare. 

If  you,  to  blefs  the  nuptials^  will  be  there: 

So 


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jsg  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    IV.  St 

So  fhall  their  loves  be  crown*d  with  due  delights. 
And  Flymen  Ihall  be  prefent  at  the  rites. 
The  queen  of  love  confents,  and  clofely  fmiles        i8o 
At  her  vain  project,  and  difcover'd  wiles. 

The  rofy  morn  was  rifen  from  the  main. 
And  horns  and  hounds  awake  the  princely  train : 
They  ifTue  early  through  the  city  gate. 
Where  the  more  wakeful  huntfmen  ready  wait,        iS^ 
With  nets,  and  toils,  and  darts,  befide  the  force 
Of  Spartan  dogs,  and  fwift  Maffylian  horfe. 
The  Tyrian  peers  and  officers  of  ftate 
For  the  flow  queen  in  anti-chambers  wait : 
Her  lofty  courfer  in  the  court  below  190 

(Who  his  majeftic  rider  feems  to  know). 
Proud  of  his  purple  trappings,  paws  the  ground, 
Aaid  champs  the  golden  bit,  and  fpreads  the  foam 

around* 
The  queen  at  length  appears :  on  either  hand 
The  brawny  guards  in  martial  order  ftand,  tg^ 

A  flower'd  cymarr,  with  golden  fringe  fhe  wore; 
And  at  her  back  a  golden  quiver  bore : 
Her  flowing  hair  a  golden  caul  reftrains; 
A  golden  clafp  the  Tyrian  robe  fuftains. 
Then  young  Afcanius,  with  a  fprightly  grace,        200 
Leads  on  the  Trojan  youth  to  view  the  chace. 
But  far  above  the  reft  in  beauty  Ihines 
The  great  -/Eneas,  when  the  troop  he  joins: 
Like  fair  Apollo,  when  he  leaves  the  frolt 
Of  wintery  Xanthus,  and  the  Lycian  coall ;  20 j; 

Vol.  XXm.  G  When 


U-  DRYI^EN'S    VIRGIL. 

When  to  his  native  D^os  he  reforts. 

Ordains  the  dances,  and  renew*  the  fports: 
Where  painted  Scythians,  mix'd  with  Cretan  bands. 
Before  the  joyful  altars  join  their  hands. 
Himfelf,  on  Cynthus  walking,  fees  below  210 

The  merry  madnefs  of  the  facred  fhow. 
Green  wreaths  of  bays  his  length  of  hair  inclofei 
A  golden  fillet  binds  his  awful  brows; 
His  quiver  founds :  not  lefs  the  prince  is  feen 
In  manly  prefence,  or  in  lofty  mien.  215 

Now  had  they  reach'd  the  hills,  and  ftorm'd  the  feat 
Of  favage  beads,  in  dens,  their  laft  retreat ; 
The  cry  purfues  the  mountain-goats ;   they  bound 
From  rock,  to  rock,  and  keep  the  craggy  ground : 
Quite  otheiwife  the  flags,  a  trembling  train,       220 
In  herds  unfingled,  feour  the  dufty  plain; 
And  a  long  chace,  in  open  view,  maintain. 
The  glad  Afcanius,  as  his  courfer  guides. 
Spurs  through  the  vale,  and  thefe  and  thofe  outrides* 
His  horfe's  flanks  and  fides  are  forc'd  to  feel  225 

The  clanking  lafli,  and  goring  of  the  fteel. 
Impatiently  he  views  the  feeble  prey^ 
Wifliing  fome  nobler  beaft  to  crofs  his  way  5 
And  rather  would  the  tulky  boar  attend. 
Or  fee  the  tawny  lion  downward  bend.  230 

Mean  time  the  gathering  clouds  obfcure  the  Ikies: 
From  pole  to  pole  the  forky  lightning  flies; 
The  rattling  thunder  rolls :  and  Juno  pour5 
A  wintery  deluge  down^  and  founding  Ihowers. 

The 


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llle  company  difpers'd,  to  coverts  rife,  23  j 

And  feek  the  homely  cots,  or  mountains  hollow  fide. 

The  rapid  rains,  defcending  from  the  hills. 

To  rolling  torrents  raife  the  creeping  rills. 

The  queen  and  prince,  as  love  or  fortune  guides. 

One  common  cavern  in  her  bofom  hides.  240 

Then  firft  the  trembling  earth  the  fignal  gave; 

And  fiafhing  fires  enlighten  all  the  cave: 

Hell  from  below,  and  Juno  from  above. 

And  howling  nymphs  were  confcious  to  their  love. 

From  this  ill-omen 'd  hour,  in  time  arofe  24r 

Debate  and  death,  and  all  fucceeding  woes. 

The  queen,  whom  fenfe  of  honour  could  not  move, 

No  longer  made  a  fecret  of  her  love; 

But  call'd  it  marriage,  by  that  fpecious  name 

To  vei  the  crime,  and  fandify  the  fhame.  250 

The  loud  report  through  Libyan  cities  goes ; 

^ame,  the  great  ill,  from  fmall  beginnings  grows. 

Swift  from  the  firft ;  and  every  moment  brings 

New  vigour    to  her    flights,   new    pinions   to   her 
winofs. 

Soon  grows  the  pigmy  to  gigantic  fize;  255 

Her  feet  on  earth,  her  forehead  in  the  fkles: 

Inrag'd  againft  the  gods  revengeful  earth 

Produc'd  her  laft  of  the  Titanian  birth. 

Swift  in  her  walk,  more  fwift  her  winged  hafte: 

A  monftrous  phantom,  horrible  and  vail;  260 

As  many  plumes  as  raife  her  lofty  flight. 

So  many  piercing  eyes  enlarge  her  fight: 

G  z  Millions 


84.  BUYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

MilKons  of  opening  mouths  to  fame  belong; 
And  every  mouth  is  furniih'd  with  a  tongue: 
Andround  with liftening ears  the  flying  plagueishung.  ^ 
She  fills  the  peaceful  univerfe  with  cries; 
No  flumbers  ever  clofe  her  wakeful  eyes. 
By  day  from  lofty  towers  her  head  fhe  fhews : 
And  fpreads,  through  trembling  crouds^  difaftrous  news. 
With  court-informers  haunts^  and  royal  fpies,         270 
This  done  relates,  nor  done  ihe  feigns ;  and  mingle* 
truth  with  lies. 

Talk  is  her  bufmefs;  and  her  chief  delight 

To  tell  of  prodigies,  and  caufe  affright. 

She  fills  the  people's  ears  with  Dido's  name; 

"Who,  loft  to  honour,  and  the  fenfe  of  fhame,  275 

Admits  into  her  throne  and  nuptial  bed 

A  wandering  gueft,  who  from  his  country  fled ; 

Whole  days  with  him  fhe  pafies  in  delights; 

And  waftes  in  luxury  long  winter  nights. 

Forgetful  of  her  fame,  and  royal  truft;  2S0 

DifTolv'd  in  eafe,  abandon'd  to  her  luft. 

The  goddefs  widely  fpreads  the  loud  report; 

And  flies  at  length  to  king  Hiarba's  court. 

When  firft  poflTefs'd  with  this  unwelcome  news, 

WTiom  did  he  not  of  men  and  gods  accufe?  285 

This  prince,  from  ravifh "d  Garamantis  bom, 

A  hundred  temples  -did  with  fpoils  adwn. 

In  Ammon's  honour  his  celeftial  fire, . 

A  hundred  altars  fed  with  wakeful  fire; 

And  through  his  vaft  dominions  priefl:s  ordain'd,    290 

Whofe  watchful  care  thefe  holy  rites  maintain'd. 

The 


^  N  E  I  S.     BOOK    IV.  tj 

The  gates  and  columns  were  with  garlands  crown'd. 
And  blood  of  victim  beafts  enrich  the  ground. 

He,  when  he  heard  a  fugitive  could  move 
The  Tyrian  princefs,  who  difdain'd  his  love,  29^ 

His  breafl:  with  fury  burn'd,  his  eyes  with  fire; 
Mad  with  defpairy  impatient  with  defire,. 
Then  on  the  facred  altars  pouring  wine. 
He  thus  with  prayers  implor'd  his  fire  divine: 
Gseat  Jove,  propitious  to  the  Moorifh  race,  30© 

Who  feail  on  painted  beds,  with  o3erings  grace 
Thy  temples,  and  adore  thy  power  divine 
With  blood  of  viftims,  and  with  fparkling  wine; 
Seefl:  thou  not  this  ?  or  do  we  fear  in  vain 
Thy  boafted  thunder,  and  thy  thoughtlefs  reign?     30^ 
Do  thy  broad  hands  the  forky  lightnings  lance. 
Thine  are  the  bolts,   or  the  blind  work  of  chance; 
A  wandering  woman  builds,  within  our  ftate, 
A  little  town,  bought  at  an  eafy  rate; 
She  pays  me  homage,  and  my  grants  allow  510 

A  narrow  fpace  of  Libyan  lands  to  plough. 
Yet,  fcorning  me,,  by  paffion  blindly  led. 
Admits  a  banifh'd  Trojan  to  her  bed  : 
And  now  this  other  Paris,  with  his  train 
Of  conquer'd  cowards,  mud  in  Afric  reign! 
(Whom,  what  they  are,  their  looks  and  garb  confefs; 
Their  locks  with  oil  perform'd,  their  Libyan  drefs:) 
He  takes  the  fpoil,  enjoys  the  princely  dame; 
And  I,  rejeded  I,  adore  an  empty  name. 

His  vows,  in  haughty  terms,  he  thus  preferr'd,  320 
And  held  his  altars  horns :  the  mighty  thunderer  heard, 

G  3  Then 


U  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Then  eaft  his  eyes  on  Carthage,  where  he  found! 

The  luilful  pair,  in  lawlefs  pleafure  drown'd* 

Loft  in  their  loves,  infenfible  of  Ihame,. 

And  both  forgetful  of  their  better  fame,  325 

He  calls  Cyllenius;  and  the  god  attends; 

By  whom  his  menacing  command  he  fends: 

Go,  mount  the  weftern  winds,  and  cleave  the  fkyi 

Then,  with  a  fwift  defcent,  to  Carthage  fly : 

There  find  the  Trojan  chief,,  who  waftes  his  days  33(8 

In  flothful  riot  and  inglorious  eafe,. 

Nor  minds  the  future  city,  giv'n  by  fate; 

To  him  this  meffage  from  my  mouth  relate : 

Not  fo,  fair  Venus  hop'd,  when  twice  Ihe  won 

Thy  life  with  prayers;  nor  promis'd  fuch  a  fon»    ^^^ 

Her's  was  a  hero,  deftin'd  to  command 

A  martial  race;  and  rule  tlie  Latian  land. 

"Who  fhould  his  ancient  line  from  Teucer  draw; 

And,  on  the  conquer'd  world,  impofe  the  law. 

If  glory  cannot  move  a  mind  fo  mean,  34.0 

Nor  future  praife  from  fading  pleafure  wean. 

Yet  why  Ihould  he  defraud  his  fon  of  fame ; 

And  grudge  the  Romans  their  immortal  name! 

What  are  his  vain  deligns  ?  what  hopes  he  more. 

From  his  long  lingering  on  a  hoftile  fhore?  34^ 

Regardlefs  to  redeem  his  honour  loft,. 

And  for  his  race  to  gain  th'  Aufonian  coaftl 

Bid  him  with  fpeed  the  Tyrian  court  forfake; 

With  this  command  the  llumbering  v/arrior  wake. 

Hermes  obeys ;  with  golden  pinions  binds  550 

His  flying  feet,  and  mounts  the  wellem  winds ; 

And 


-^NEIS»     BOOK    IV.  ^ 

And  whether  o'er  the  feas  or  earth  he  flies. 

With  rapid  force  they  bear  him  down  the  fkies. 

But  firft  he  grafps,  within  his  awful  hand. 

The  mark  of  fovereign  power,  his  magic  wand:    jptf- 

With  this  he  draws  the  ghofts  from  hollow  graves. 

With  this  he  drives  them  down  the  Stygian  waves ; 

With  this  he  feals  in  fleep  the  wakeful  fight; 

And  eyes,  though  clos'd  in  death,  reftores  to  light. 

Thus  arm'd,  the  god  begins  his  airy  race,  36a 

And  drives  the  racking  clouds  along  the  liquid  fpace. 

Now  fees  the  tops  .of  Atlas,  as  he  flies, 

Whofe  brawny  back  fupports  the  ftarry  Ikies ; 

Atlas,  whofe  head,  with  piny  forefts  crown'd. 

Is  beaten  by  the  winds,  with  (oggy  vapours  bound.  36? 

Snows  hide  his  Ihoulders;  from  beneath  his  chift 

The  founts  of  rolling  ftreams  their  race  b&gih ; 

A  beard  of  ice  on  his  large  breaft  depends : 

Here,  poised  upon  his  wings,  the  god  defcends : 

Then,  refted  thus,  he  from  the  towering  height     570 

Flung*d  downward,  with  precipitated  flight : 

Lights  on  the  feas,  and  fkims  along  the  flood  i 

As  water-fowl,  who  feek  their  fifhy  food, 

Lefs,  and  yet  lefs,  to  diftant  profpe6l  fhow. 

By  turns  they  dance  aloft,  and  dive  below :  jy^ 

Like  thefe,  the  fteerage  of  his  wings  he  plies. 

And  near  the  furface  of  the  water  flies : 

Till,  having  pafs'd  the  feas,  and  crofs'd  the  fands. 

He  clos'd  his  wings,  and  ftoop'd  on  Libyan  lands : 

Where  fliepherds  once  were  hous"d  in  homely  flieds,  ^S6 

Now  towers  within  the  clouds  advance  their  heads. 

G  4  Arriving 


4f  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

Arriving  there,  he  found  the  Trojan  pririce 

New  ramparts  railing  for  the  town's  defence : 

A  purple  fcarf,  with  gold  erabroider'd  o'er 

(Queen  Dido's  gift),  about  his  wafte  he  wore;        38^ 

A  fword  with  glittering  gems  diverfify'd. 

For  ornament,  not  ufe,  hung  idly  by  his  fide. 

Then  thus,  with  winged  words,  the  god  began 

(Refuming  his  own  Ihape):   Degenerate  man. 

Thou  woman's  property,  what  mak'ft  thou  here,    390 

Thefe  foreign  walls  and  Tyrian  towers  to  rear  ? 

Forgetful  of  thy  own  ?  All-powerful  Jove,. 

Who  fways  the  world  below,  and  heaven  above,. 

Has  fent  me  down,  with  this  fevere  command : 

What  means  thy  lingering  in  the  Libyan  land?       39J; 

If  glory  cannot  move  a  mind  fo  mean. 

Nor  future  praife,  from  flitting  pleafure  wean, 

Hegard  the  fortunes  of  thy  rifmg  heir; 

The  promis'd  crown  let  young  Afcanius  wear; 

To  whom  th'  Aufonian  r:eptre  and  the  ftate  40© 

Of  Rome's  imperial  name  is  ow'd  by  fate. 

So  fpoke  the  god ;  and  fpeaking  took  his  flight, 

Involv'd  in  clouds ;  and  vanifli'd  out  of  fight. 

The  pious  prince  was  feiz'd  with  fudden  fear ;. 
Mute  was  his  tongue,  and  upright  fl:ood  his  hair  j  40^ 
Revolving  in  his  mind  the  ftern  command. 
He  longs  to  fly,  and  loaths  the  charming  land. 
What  Ihould  he  fay,  or  how  fhould  he  begin,  "1 

What  courfe,  alas !  remains,  to  fleer  between  I 

Th'  offended  lover^  and  the  powerful  queen!      410  J 

Thii 


/E  N  E  I  S»     B  O  O  K    IV,  Zp 

This  way,  and  that,  he  turns  his  anxious  mind. 

And  all  expedients  tries  and  none  can  find : 

Fix'd  on  the  deed,  but  doubtful  of  the  means; 

After  long  thought  to  this  advice  he  leans ; 

Three  chiefs  he  calls,  commands  them  to  repair     41  jp 

The  fleet,  and  fhip  their  men  with  filent  care ; 

Some  plaufible  pretence  he  bids  them  find. 

To  colour  what  in  fecret  he  defign'd. 

Himfelf,  meantime,  the  fofteft  hours  would  choofe. 

Before  the  love-fick  lady  heard  the  news;  420 

And  move  her  tender  mind,  by  flow  degrees. 

To  fuifer  what  the  fovereign  power  decrees : 

Jove  will  infpire  him,  when,  and  what  to  fay. 

They  hear  with  pleafure,  and  with  hafte  obey. 

But  foon  the  queen  perceives  the  thin  difguife ;  425 
fWhat  arts  can  blind  a  jealous  woman*s  eyes  ?j 
She  was  the  firft  to  find  the  fecret  fraud. 
Before  the  fatal  news  was  blaz'd  abroad. 
Love  the  firft  motions  of  the  lover  hears. 
Quick  to  prefage,  and  ev'n  in  fafety  fears,  430 

Nor  impious  fame  was  wanting,  to  report 
The  fhips  repair'd ;  the  Trojans  thick  refort. 
And  purpofe  to  forfake  the  Tyrian  court. 
Frantic  with  fear,  impatient  of  the  wound. 
And  impotent  of  mind,  Ihe  roves  the  city  round  :  43^ 
Lefs  wild  the  Bacchanalian  dames  appear. 
When,  from  afar,  their  nightly  god  they  hear. 
And  howl  about  the  hills,  and  lliake  the  wreathy  fpear 
At  length  (he  finds  the  dear  perfidious  man; 
Prevents  his  form'd  excufe,  and  thus  began:         440 

Bafc 


} 


J 


^b  DllY0EN'§    VIRGILi 

Bafe  and  ungrateful,  could  you  hope  to  fly. 
And  undifcover'd  Ycape  a  lover's  eye  ? 
Nor  could  my  kindnefs  your  compaffion  move> 
Kor  plighted  vows,  nor  dearer  bands  oflove? 
Or  is  the  death  of  a  defpairing  queen  44^ 

Not  worth  preventing,  though  too  well  forefeen  ? 
Ev'n  when  the  wintery  winds  command  your  ftay» 
You  dare  the  temped,  and  defy  the  fea. 
Falfe  as  you  are,,  fuppofe  you  were  not  bound 
To  lands  unknown,  and  foreign  coafts  to  found;    450 
Were  Troy  reftor'd,  and  Priam^s  happy  reign. 
Now  durft  you  tempt,  for  Troy,  the  raging  main? 
See  whom  you  fly  3.  am  I  the  foe  you  fhun  ? 
Now,  by  thofe  holy  vows  fo  late  begun. 
By  this  right  hand  (fmce  I  have  nothing  more        45^ 
To  challenge,  but  the  faith  you  gave  before), 
I  beg  you  by  thefe  tears  too  truly  Ihed, 
By  the  new  pleafures  of  our  nuptial  bed; 
If  ever  Dido,  when  you  moft  were  kind. 
Were  pleafmg  in  your  eyes,  or  touched  your  mind; 
By  thefe  my  prayers,  if  prayers  may  yet  have  places 
iPity  the  fortunes  of  a  falling  race. 
For  you  I  have  provok'd  a  tyrant^s  hate  ; 
Incens'd  the  Libyan  and  the  Tyrian  ftatej 
For  you  alone  I  fuffer  in  my  fame ;  465 

Bereft  of  honour,  and  expos'd  to  fhame : 
Whom  have  I  now  to  truft?  (ungrateful  gueftf 
That  only  name  remains  of  all  the  reft!) 
What  have  I  left,  or  whither  can  I  flyj 
IVIuft  I  attend  Pygmalion's  cruelty?  476 

Or 


} 


jSSNETS.     book    IV.  ^ 

'Or  tin  HIarbas  Ihall  in  triumph  lead 
A  queen,  that  proudly  fcom'd  his  proflfer'd  bed  ? 
Had  you  deferr'd,  at  leaft,  your  hafty  flight. 
And  left  behind  feme  pledge  of  our  delight. 
Some  babe  to  blefs  the  mother's  mournful  fight; 
Some  young  JEntzs  to  fupply  your  place  j 
Whofe  features  might  exprefs  his  father's  face; 
I  fliould  not  then  complain,  to  live  bereft 
Of  all  my  hufband,  or  be  wholly  left! 

Here  paus'd  the  queen;  unmov'd  he  holds  his  ey^s. 
By  Jove's  command;,  nor  fuffer'd  love  to  rife. 
Though  heaving  in  his  heart;  and  thus  at  length 

replies : 

Fair  queen,  you  never  can  enough  repeat. 
Your  boundlefs  favours,  or  I  own  my  debt ; 
Kor  can  my  mind  forget  Eliza's  name. 
While  vital  breath  infpires  this  mortal  frame. 
This  only  let  me  fpeak  in  my  defence  ; 
I  never  hop'd  a  fecret  flight  from  hence : 
Much  lefs  pretended  to  the  lawful  claim 
Of  facred  nuptials,  or  a  hufband's  name,  i(:gO 

For  if  indulgent  heaven  would  leave  me  free. 
And  not  fubmit  my  life  to  fate's  decree. 
My  choice  would  lead  me  to  the  Trojan  fliore, 
Thofe  relics  to  review,  their  dull  adore; 
And  Priam's  ruin'd  palace  to  reftore.  495 

But  now  the  Delphian  oracle  commands. 
And  fate  invites  me  to  the  Latian  lands. 
That  is  the  promis'd  place  to  which  I  fleer. 
And  all  my  vows  are  terminated  there, 

X  If 


} 


^  DRYDEN*S    VIRGIL, 

If  you,  a  Tyrian,  and  a  ftranger  born,  50© 

"With  walls  and  towers  a  Libyan  tovm  adorn ; 

Why  may  not  we,  like  you  a  foreign  race. 

Like  you  feek  fhelter  in  a  foreign  place  ? 

As  often  as  the  night  obfcures  the  ikies 

With  humid  Ihades,  or  twinkling  ftars  arife,  505" 

Anchifes'  angry  ghoft  in  dreams  appears. 

Chides  my  delay,  and  fills  my  foul  with  fears ; 

And  young  Afcanius  juftly  may  complain. 

Of  his  defrauded  fate,  and  deftin'd  reign* 

Ev*n  now  the  herald  of  the  gods  appear'd,  5,10 

Waking  I  faw  him,  and  his  meffage  heard. 

From  Jove  he  came  commiffion'd,  heavenly  bright 

With  radiant  beams,  and  manifeft  to  fight,. 

The  fender  and  the  fent,  I  both  atteft,. 

Thefe  walls  he  enter'd,  and  thofe  words  exprefs'd:  515 

Fair  queen^  oppofe  not  what  the  gods  command; 

Forc'd  by  my  fate,  I  leave  your  happy  land. 

Thus  while  he  fpoke,  already  (he  began. 
With  fparkling  eyes,  to  view  the  guilty  man : 
From  head  to  foot  furvey'd  his  perfon  o'er,  ^2^ 

Kor  longer  thefe  outrageous  threats  forbore : 
Falfe  as  thou  art,  and  more  than  falfe,  forfvvorn ; 
Not  fprung  from  noble  blood,  nor  goddefs-born,. 
But  hewn  from  hardened  entrails  of  a  rock ; 
And  rough  Hyrcanian  tigers  gave  thee  fuck. 
Why  fhould  I  fav.-n  ?  what  have  I  worfe  to  fear  ? 
Did  he  once  look,  or  lent  a  lifteaing  ear; 
Sigh'd  when  I  fobb'd,  or  ihed  one  kindly  teai? 


} 


^NEIS.     BOOK    IV.  9j 

AVi  fymptoms  of  a  bafe  ungrateful  mind. 
So  foul,  that  which  is  worfe,  'tis  hard  to  find,       ^30 
Of  man's  injuftice,  why  fliould  I  complain? 
The  gods,  and  Jove  himfelf,  behold  in  vain 
Triumphant  treafon,  yet  no  thunder  flies : 
Nor  Juno  views  my  wrongs  with  equal  eyes; 
Taithlefs  is  earth,  and  faithlefs  are  the  Ikies i       ^^^ 
Juftice  is  fled,  and  truth  is  now  no  more; 
I  fav"d  the  fhipwreck'd  exile  on  mv  fhore: 
With  needful  food  his  hungry  Trojans  fed; 
I  took  the  traitor  to  my  throne  and  bed : 
Fool  that  I  was! — 'tis  little  to  repeat  ^4© 

The  refl:,  I  ftor'd  and  rigg'd  his  ruin'd  fleet. 
I  rave,  I  rave!  A  god's  command  he  pleads! 
And  makes  heaven  acceffary  to  his  deeds. 
Kow  Lycian  lots,  and  now  the  Delian  god, 
Kow  Hermes  is  employ 'd  from  Jove's  abode,         54^ 
To  warn  him  hence;  as  if  the  peaceful  ftate 
Gf  heavenly  powers  were  touch"d  with  human  fate! 
But  go  ;   thy  flight  no  longer  I  detain; 
Go  feek  thy  promis'd  kingdom  through  the  main  : 
Yet,  if  the  heavens  will  hear  my  pious  vow,  550 

The  faithlefs  waves,  not  half  fo  falfe  as  thou. 
Or  fecret  fands,  fhall  fepulchres  afford 
To  thy  proud  veffels  and  their  perjur'd  lord. 
Then  fhalt  thou  call  on  injur'd  Dido's  name;  t 

Dido  (hall  come,  in  a  black  fulphury  flame;      ^^^  > 
\(Viien  death  has  once  diffolv'd  her  mortal  frame;     J 

5haU 


5^  DRYDEN^S    VIRGTL. 

Shall  fmile  to  fee  the  traitor  vainly  weep;  "J 

Her  angry  ghoft,  arifing  from  the  deep,  |» 

Shall  haunt  thee  waking,  and  dilhirb  thy  fleep.         J 
At  leaft  my  (hade  thy  punifhment  (hall  know;         j6o 
And  fame  (hall  fpread  the  pleafmg  news  below. 

Abruptly  here  fhe  ftops:  then  turns  away 
Her  loathing  eyes,  and  fhuns  the  light  of  day. 
Amaz'd  he  ftood,  revolving  in  his  mind 
What  fpeech  to  frame,  and  what  excufe  to  find.     56^ 
Her  fearful  maids  their  fainting  miftrefs  led ; 
And  foftly  laid  her  on  her  ivory  bed. 

But  good  iEneas,  though  he  much  defir'd 
^o  give  that  pity,  which  her  grief  requir'd. 
Though  much  he  mourn'd  and  labour 'd  with  his  lov^ 
ilefolv'd  at  length.,  obeys  the  will  of  Jove; 
5leviews  his  forces;  they  with  early  care 
Unmoor  their  vefiels,  and  for  fea  prepare. 
The  fleet  is  feon  afloat,  in  all  its  pride: 
And  well-caulk'd  gallies  in  the  harbour  ride,  5-7^ 

Then  oaks  for  oars  they  fell'd;  or,  as  they  ftood. 
Of  its  green  arms  defpoil'd  the  growing  wood. 
Studious  of  flight :  the  beach  is  cover'd  o'er 
"With  Trojan  bands  that  bkcken  all  the  fhore; 
On  every  fide  are  feen,  defcending  down,  58a 

Thick  fwarms  of  foldiers  loaden  from  the  town, 
Tiius,  in  battalia,  march  embodied  ants. 
Fearful  of  winter,  and  of  future  wants, 
T'  invade  the  com,  and  to  their  cells  convey 
The  plunder 'd  forage  of  their  yellow  prej^,  585^ 

The 


^NEIS.      BOOK     IV.  9> 


The  fable  troops,  along  the  narrow  tracks, 
Scarce  bear  the  weighty  burden  on  their  backs : 
Some  fet  their  fhoulders  on  the  ponderous  grain ;      "| 
Some  guard  the  fpoil;  fome  la(h  the  lagging  train;     > 
All  ply  their  feveral  talks,  and  equal  toil  fuftain.  590  J 
What  pangs  the  tender  bread  of  Dido  tore, 
"When,  from  the  tower,  (he  faw  the  cover'd  fhorej 
And  heard  the  Ihouts  of  failors  from  afar, 
Mix'd  with  the  murmurs  of  the  watery  wart 
All-powerful  love,  what  changes  canft  thou  caufe  59^ 
In  human  hearts,  fubjefted  to  thy  laws! 
Once  more  her  haughty  foul  the  tyrant  bends; 
To  prayers  and  mean  fubmiifions  {he  defcenda. 
No  female  arts  or  aids  fhe  left  untry'd, 
Nor  counfels  unexplor'd,  before  fhe  dy*d«  600 

Look,  Ann^a^  look;  the  Trojans  crowd  to  fea: 
They  fpread  their  canvafs,  and  their  anchors  w^igh: 
The  (houting  crew,  their  Ihips  with  garlands  bind. 
Invoke  the  fea-gods,  and  invite  the  wind. 
Could  I  have  thought  this  threatening  blow  fo  near,  605 
]^y  tender  foul  had  been  forewarned  to  bear. 
But  do  not  you  my  laft  requeft  deny. 
With  yon  perfidious  man  your  interefl  try; 
And  bring  me  news,  if  I  mufl  live  or  die. 
You  are  his  favourite,  you  alone  can  find  610 

The  dark  receifes  of  his  inmofl  mind : 
In  all  his  trufty  fecrets  you  have  part. 
And  know  the  foft  approaches  to  his  heart. 
Hafle  then,  and  humbly  feek  my  haughty  foej 
TcU  him,  I  did  aot  with,  the  Gxeciaas  go;  615 

Nor 


} 


^  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

Nor  did  my  fleet  againft  his  friends  employ. 

Nor  fwore  the  ruin  of  unhappy  Troy; 

Nor  mov'd  with  hands  prophane  his  father's  duflj 

Why  fhould  he  then  rejeft  a  fuit  fo  juft! 

Whom  does  he  Ihun,  and  whither  would  he  fly?    6zo 

Can  he  this  laft,  this  only  prayer  deny! 

Let  him  at  leaft  his  dangerous  flight  delay. 

Wait  better  winds,  and  hope  a  calmer  fea. 

The  nuptials  he  difclaims,  I  urge  no  more; 

Let  him  purfue  the  promis'd  Latian  fhore.  62^ 

A  fliort  delay  is  all  I  alk  him  now, 

A  paufe  o£  grief,  an  interval  from  woe : 

Till  my  foft  foul  be  tempered  to  fuftain 

Accuilom'd  forrows,  and  inur'd  to  pain. 

If  you  in  pity  grant  this  one  re queft,  63® 

My  death  ihaU  glut  the  hatred  of  his  breafl. 

This  mournful  mefTage  pious  Anna  bears. 

And  feconds,  with  her  own,  her  fifter's  tears: 

But  all  her  arts  are  ftill  employ "d  in  vainj 

Again  fhe  comes,  and  is  refus'd  again.  635* 

His  hardened  heart  nor  prayers  nor  threatenings  move; 

Fate,  and  the  god,  had  fl:opp'd  his  ears  to  love. 

As  when  the  winds  their  air^^  quarrel  try, 
Jultling  from  every  quarter  of  the  fky, 
SThis  way  and  that  the  mountain  oak  they  bend,     640 
His  boughs  they  fhatter,  and  his  branches  rend; 
With  leaves  and  falling  mafl:  they  fpread  the  ground. 
The  hollow  valleys  echo  to  the  found ; 
Unmov'd,  the  royal  plant  their  fury  mocks. 
Or,  fhaken,  clings  more  clofely  to  the  rocks:        64 j 

Far 


^NEIS.     BOOK    IV.  97 

Far  as  he  fhoots  his  towering  head  on  high. 

So  deep  in  earth  his  fix'd  foundations  lie: 

No  lefs  a  ftorm  the  Trojan  hero  bears;  l 

Thick  meffages  and  loud  complaints  he  hears,  > 

And  bandy 'd  words  ftill  beating  on  his  ears.       650  J 

Sighs,  groans,  and  tears,  proclaim  his  inward  pains. 

But  the  firm  purpofe  of  his  heart  remains. 

The  wretched  queen,  purfu'd  by  cruel  fate, 
Begins  at  length  the  light  of  heaven  to  hate. 
And  loaths  to  live  :  then  dire  portents  (he  fees,       6^^ 
To  haften-on  the  death  her  foul  decrees ;  • 
Strange  to  relate :  for  when,  before  the  ihrine. 
She  pours,  in  facrifice,  the  purple  wine. 
The  purple  wine  is  turned  to  putrid  blood. 
And  the  white  offer'd  milk  converts  to  mud,  660 

This  dire  prefage,  to  her  alone  reveal'd. 
From  all,  and  ev'n  her  fifter,  fhe  conceal'd. 
A  marble  temple  flood  within  the  grove. 
Sacred  to  death,  and  to  her  murder'd  love; 
That  honour'd  chapel  fhe  had  hung  around  66^ 

With  fnowy  fleeces,  and  with  garlands  crown'd : 
Oft,  when  fhe  vifited  this  lonely  dome. 
Strange  voices  iffued  from  her  hufband's  tomb : 
She  thought  fhe  heard  him  fummon  her  away. 
Invite  her  to  his  grave,  and  chide  her  flay.  670 

Hourly  'tis  heard,  when,  with  a  boding  note. 
The  folitary  fcreech-owl  flrains  her  throat : 
And  on  a  chimney's  top,  or  turret's  height. 
With  fongs  obfcene  diflurbs  the  filence  of  the  night. 

Vol.  XXIII.  H  Befides, 


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58  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Eefides,  old  prophecies  augment  her  fears. 

And  ftern  iEneas  in  her  dreams  appears 

Difdainful  as  by  day :  (he  feems  alone 

To  wander  in  her  fleep,  through  ways  unknown, 

Guidelefs  and  dark:   or,  in  a  defert  plain. 

To  feek  her  fubjeds,  and  to  feek  in  vain.  68o 

Like  Pentheus,  when,  diftra6led  with  his  fear. 

He  faw  two  funs,  and  double  Thebes  appear: 

Or  mad  Oreftes,  when  his  mother's  ghoft 

Full  in  his  face  infernal  torches  tofs'd; 

And  fhook  her  fnaky  locks:  he  Ihuns  the  fight,  685 

Flies  o'er  the  ftage,  furpriz'd  with  mortal  fright; 

The  furies  guard  the  door,  and  intercept  his  flight. 

Now,  finking  underneath  a  load  of  grief. 
From  death  alone  Ihe  feeks  her  laft  relief; 
The  time  and  means  refolv'd  within  her  breaft,       690 
She  to  her  mournful  fifler  thus  addrefs'd 
(Diflembling  hope,  her  cloudy  front  fhe  clears. 
And  a  falfe  vigour  in  her  eyes  appears) : 
Rejoice,  fhe  faid,  inflrufled  from  above. 
My  lover  I  fhall  gain,  or  lofe  my  love.  69^ 

Nigh  rifmg  Atlas,  next  the  falling  fun. 
Long  trafts  of  Ethiopian  climates  run : 
There  a  MafTylian  princefs  I  have  found, 
Honour'd  for  age,  for  magic  arts  renown 'd; 
Th'  Hefperlan  temple  was  her  trufted  care ;  -700 

'Twas  fhe  fupply'd  the  wakeful  dragon's  fare. 
She  poppy-feeds  in  honey  taught  to  fteep. 
Reclaim 'd  his  rage,  and  footh'd  him  into  fleep. 

5  She 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    IV,  9, 

She  watch'd  the  golden  fruit;  her  charms  unbind 

The  chains  of  love,  or  fix  them  on  the  mind.         70^; 

She  ftops  the  torrents,  leaves  the  channel  dry; 

Repels  the  ftars,  and  backward  bears  the  {ky. 

The  yawning  earth  rebellows  to  her  call. 

Pale  ghofts  afcend,  and  mountain  afhes  fall, 

Witnefs,  ye  gods,  and  thou  my  better  part,  710 

How  loath  I  am  to  try  this  impious  art ! 

Within  the  fecret  court  with  filent  care, 

Ereft  a  lofty  pile,  expos'd  in  air; 

Hang  on  the  topmoft  part  the  Trojan  veil:. 

Spoils,  arms  and  prefents  of  my  faithlefs  gueil.        71^ 

Next,  under  thefe,  the  bridal  bed  be  plac'd. 

Where  I  my  ruin  in  his  arms  embrac'd : 

All  relics  of  the  wretch  are  doom'd  to  fire. 

For  fo  the  prieftefs  and  her  charms  require. 

Thus  far  fhe  faid,  and  farther  fpeech  forbears;       720 

A  mortal  palenefs  in  her  face  appears : 

Yet  the  miftruftlefs  Anna  could  not  find 

The  fecret  funeral  in  thefe  rites  defign'd. 

Nor  thought  fo  dire  a  rage  poffefs'd  her  mind. 

Unknowing  of  a  train  conceal'd  fo  well,  72j^ 

She  fear'd  no  worfe  than  when  Sichasus  fell ; 

Therefore  obeys.     The  fatal  pile  they  rear 

Within  the  fecret  court,  expos'd  in  air. 

The  cloven  holms  and  pines  are  heap'd  on  high; 

And  garlands  on  the  hollow  fpaces  lie.  73  0 

Sad  cyprefs,  vervain,  eugh,  compofe  the  wreath. 

And  every  baleful  green  denoting  death, 

Hz  The 


} 


,00  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

The  queen,  determin'd  to  the  fatal  deed,  '\ 

The  fpoils  and  fword  he  left,  in  order  fpread :  > 

And  the  man's  image  on  the  nuptial  bed.  735  J 

And  now  (the  facred  altars  plac'd  around)  n 

The  prieftefs  enters,  with  her  hair  unbound,  > 

And  thrice  invokes  the  powers  below  the  ground.     J 
Isight,  Erebus,  and  Chaos,  fhe  proclaims. 
And  threefold  Hecate,  with  her  hundred  names,     740 
And  three  Dianas :  next  Ihe  fprinkles  round, 
"With  feign'd  Avernian  drops,  the  hallow'd  ground ; 
Culls  hoary  fimples,  found  by  Phoebe's  light. 
With  brazen  fickles  reap'd  at  noon  of  night. 
Then  mixes  baleful  juices  in  the  bowl,  745 

And  cuts  the  forehead  of  a  new-born  foal; 
Robbing  the  mother's  love.     The  deftin'd  queen, 
Obferves,  affifting  at  the  rites  obfcene : 
A  leaven'd  cake  in  her  devoted  hands 
She  holds,  and  next  the  higheft  altar  ftands: 
One  tender  foot  was  Ihod,  her  other  bare,  750 

Girt  was  her  gather'd  gown,  and  loofe  her  hair. 
Thus    drefs'd,     fhe    fummon'd,     with     her    dying 

breath. 
The  heavens  and  planets,  confcious  of  her  death; 
And  every  power,  if  any  rules  above,  755 

Who  minds,  or  who  revenges,  injur 'd  love. 

'Twas  dead  of  night,  when  weary  bodies  clofe 
Their  eyes  in  balmy  fleep  and  foft  repofe : 
The  winds  no  longer  whifper  through  the  woods. 
Nor  murmuring  tides  diflurb  the  gentle  floods.      760 

The 


JENEIS.     BOOK    IV.  loi 

The  ftars  in  filent  order  mov'd  around. 

And  peace,  with  downy  wings,  was  brooding  on  the 

ground. 
The  flocks  and  herds,  and  particolour'd  fowl. 
Which  haunt  the  woods,  or  fwim  the  weedy  pool, 
Stretch'd  on  the  quiet  earth  fecurely  lay,  -ySc 

Forgetting  the  paft  labours  of  the  day. 
All  elfe  of  nature's  common  gift  partake; 
Unhappy  Dido  was  alone  awake. 
Nor  fleep  nor  eafe  the  furious  queen  can  find ; 
Sleep  fled  her  eyes,  as  quiet  fled  her  mind.  'j'jq 

Defpair,  and  rage,  and  love,  divide  her  heart: 
Defpair  and  rage  had  fome,  but  love  the  greater  part. 

Then  thus  fhe  faid  within  her  fecret  mind  i 
"What  fliall  I  do;  what  fuccour  can  I  find? 
Become  a  fuppliant  to  Hiarba's  pride,  77^ 

And  take  my  turn,  to  court  and  be  deny'd! 
Shall  I  with  this  ungrateful  Trojan  go, 
Forfake  an  empire,  and  attend  a  foe  ? 
Himfelf  I  refug'd,  and  his  train  reliev'd; 
'Tistrue.  but  am  I  fure  to  be  receiv'd?  780 

Can  gratitude  in  Trojan  fouls  have  place  ? 
Laomedon  flill  lives  in  all  his  race ! 
Then,  fhall  I  feek  alone  the  churlifh  crew. 
And  with  my  fleet  their  flying  fails  purfue  ? 
What  force  have  I  but  thofe,  whom  fcarce  before    78^ 
I  drew  reludant  from  their  native  fhore  ? 
Will  they  again  embark  at  my  defire. 
Once  more  fuflain  the  feas,  and  quit  their  fecond  Tyre  ? 

H  3  Rather 


id»  PRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Rather  with  ftcel  thy  guilty  breaft  invade. 

And  take  the  fortune  thou  thyfelf  haft  made,  '•jgo 

Your  pity,  fifler,  firrh  feduc'd  my  mind 5 

Or  feconded  too  well  what  I  defign'd. 

Thefe  dear-bought  pleafures  had  I  ne\'er  known. 

Had  I  continued  free,  and  ftill  my  own; 

Avoiding  love,  I  had  not  found  defpair : 

But  fhar'd,  with  favage  beafts,  the  common  airj 

Like  them  a  lonely  life  I  might  have  led. 

Not  mourn'd  the  living,  nor  difturb'd  the  dead, 

Thefe  thoughts  fhe  brooded  in  her  anxious  breaft ; 

On  board,  the  Trojan  found  more  eafy  reft.  800 

Refolv'd  to  fail,  in  lleep  he  pafs'd  the  night; 

And  order'd  all  things  for  his  early  flight* 

To  whom  once  more  the  winged  god  appears : 

His  former  youthful  mien  and  Ihape  he  wears. 

And,  with  this  new  alarm,  invades  his  ears :     805 

Sleep'ft  thou,  O  goddefs-born !   and  canft  thou  drown 

Thy  needful  cares,  fo  near  a  hoftile  town, 

Befet  with  foes  ?  nor  hear'ft  the  weftern  gales 

Invite  thy  pafTage,  and  infpire  thy  fails?  81  c 

She  harbours  in  Tier  heart  a  furious  hate; 

And  thou  Ihalt  find  the  dire  efFedls  too  late; 

Fix'd  on  revenge,  and  obftinate  to  die; 

Hafte  fwiftly  hence,  while  thou  haft  power  to  fly. 

The  fea  with  fhips  will  foon  be  cover 'd  o'er,  815 

And  blazing  firebrands  kindle  all  the  Ihore. 

Prevent  her  rage,  while  night  obfcures  the  Ikies; 

And  fail  before  the  purple  morn  arife. 

Who 


} 


JE  NE  IS.     BOOK    IV.  103 

Who  knows  what  hazards  thy  delay  may  bring  ? 
Woman's  a  various  and  a  changeful  thing.  820 

Thus  Hermes  in  the  dream;  then  took  his  flight. 
Aloft  in  air  unfeen;  and  mix'd  with  night. 
Twice  warn'd  by  the  celellial  melTenger, 
The  pious  prince  arofe  with  hafly  fear : 
Then  rouz'd  his  drowfy  train  without  delay,  l 

Hade  to  your  banks;   your  crooked  anchors  weigh;   > 
And  fpread  your  flying  fails,  and  Hand  to  fea.  J 

A  god  commands ;   he  fl:ood  before  my  fight ; 
And  urg'd  us  once  again  to  fpeedy  flight. 
O  facred  power,  what  power  foe'er  thou  art,  8jO 

To  thy  blefs'd  orders  I  refign  my  heart : 
Lead  thou  the  way;  protect  thy  Trojan  bands; 
And  profper  the  deflgn  thy  will  commands. 
He  faid,  and,  drawing  forth  his  flaming  fword. 
His  thundering  arm  divides  the  many-twifl:ed  cord : 
An  emulating  zeal  infpires  his  train ; 
They  run,  they  fnatch ;  they  rufh  into  the  main. 
With  headlong  hafl:e  they  leave  the  defert  fliores. 
And  brufli  the  liquid  feas  vvith  labouring  oars. 

Aurora  now  had  left  her  faffron  bed,  840 

And  beams  of  early  light  the  heavens  o'erfpread. 
When  from  a  tower  the  queen,  with  wakeful  eyes. 
Saw  day  point  upward  from  the  rofy  Ikies : 
She  look'd  to  feaward,  but  the  fea  was  void. 
And  fcarce  in  ken  the  failing  fliips  defcry'd : 
Stung  with  defpight,  and  furious  with  defpair. 
She  ftruck  her  trembling  breafl:,  and  tore  her  hair. 

H  4.  And 


104  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

And  fhall  th'  ungrateful  traitor  go,  Ihe  faid. 

My  land  forfaken,   and  my  love  betray 'd? 

Shall  we  not  arm,  not  rufli  from  every  ftreet,  850 

To  follow,  fmk,  and  burn  his  perjur'd  fleet? 

Hafte;  haul  my  gallics  out;  purfue  the  foe: 

Bring  flaming  brands;  fet  fail,  and  fv/iftly  row. 

What  have  I  faid?  Where  am  I?   Fury  turns 

My  brain,  and  my  diftemper'd  bafom  burns.  855" 

Then,  when  I  gave  my  perfon  and  my  throne. 

This  hate,  this  rage,  had  been  more  timely  Ihown. 

See  now  the  promis'd  faith,  the  vaunted  name. 

The  pious  man,  who,  ruihing  through  the  flame, 

Preferv'd  his  gods,  and  to  the  Phrygian  fhore         860 

The  burden  of  his  feeble  father  bore! 

I  fhould  have  torn  him  piece-meal;  ftrow'd  in  fioods 

His  fcatter'd  limbs,  or  left  expos'd  in  woods: 

Deftroy'd  his  friends  and  fon;  and,  from  the  fire. 

Have  fet  the  reeking  boy  before  the  fire.  865 

Events  are  doubtful  which  on  battle  wait ; 

Yet  where's  the  doubt  to  fouls  fecure  of  fatef 

My  Tyrians,  at  their  injured  queen's  command. 

Had  tofs'd  their  fires  amid  the  Trojan  band  : 

At  once  extinguifli'd  all  the  faithlefs  name;         870 '^ 

And  I  myfelf,  in  vengeance  of  my  fhame,  t 

Had  fall'n  upon  the  pile  to  mend  the  funeral  flame.  J 

Thou  fun,  who  view^ft  at  once  the  world  below. 

Thou  June,  guardian  of  the  nuptial  vow. 

Thou  Hecate,  hearken  from  thy  dark  abodes;        87;; 

Ye  furies,  fiends,  and  violated  gods, 

All 


JEN  E  IS.     BOOK    IV.  105 

All  powers  invok'd  with  Dido's  dying  breath. 

Attend  her  curfes,  and  avenge  her  death. 

If  fo  the  Fates  ordain,  and  Joa'c  commands, 

Th'  ungrateful  wretch  ihould  find  the  Latian  lands,  880 

Yet  let  a  race  untam'd,  and  haughty  foes. 

His  peaceful  entrance  with  dire  arras  oppofe; 

Opprefs'd  with  numbers  in  th'  unequal  field. 

His  men  difcourag'd,  and  himfelf  expell'd; 

Let  him  for  fuccour  fue  from  place  to  place,  88c 

"Tom  from  his  fubje6ls,  and  his  fon's  embrace; 

Firft  let  him  fee  his  friends  in  battle  flain. 

And  their  untimely  fate  lament  in  vain : 

And  when,  at  length,  the  cruel  war  fhall  ceafe. 

On  hard  conditions  may  he  buy  his  peace.  890 

Nor  let  him  then  enjoy  fupreme  command, 

But  fall  untimely  by  fome  hoftile  hand. 

And  lie  unbury'd  on  the  barren  fand. 

Thefe  are  my  prayers,  and  this  my  dying  will: 

And  you,  my  Tyrians,  every  curfe  fulfil;  895 

Perpetual  hate,  and  mortal  wars  ploclaim 

Agalnft  the  prince,  the  people,  and  the  name, 

Thefe  grateful  offerings  on  my  grave  beftow. 

Nor  league,  nor  love,  the  hoftile  nations  know ; 

Now,  and  from  hence  in  every  future  age,  900 

When  rage  excites  your  arras,  and  ftrength  fupplies 

the  rage. 
Rife  fome  avenger  of  our  Libyan  blood ; 
With  fire  and  fword  purfue  the  perjur'd  brood : 
Our  arms,  our  feas,  our  fhores  oppos'd  to  theirs. 
And  the  fame  hate  defcend  on  all  our  heirs.  905: 

This 


} 


io5  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

This  faid,  within  her  anxious  mind  flie  weighs 
The  means  of  cutting  fhort  her  odious  days. 
Then  to  Sichasus'  nurfe  (he  briefly  faid 
(For  when  (he  left  her  country  her's  was  deadj. 
Go,  Barce,  call  my  fifter;  let  her  care  91 0 

The  folemn  rites  of  facrifice  prepare : 
The  fheep,  and  all  the  atoning  offerings  bring. 
Sprinkling  her  body  from  the  cryftal  fpring 
With  living  drops :  then  let  her  come,  and  thou 
With  facred  fillets  bind  thy  hoary  brow.  gi  j; 

Thus  will  I  pay  my  vows  to  Stygian  Jove, 
And  end  the  cares  of  my  difaflrous  love. 
Then  caft  the  Trojan  image  on  the  fire. 
And,  as  that  bums,  my  paflion  fliall  expire. 

The  nurfe  moves  onward,  with  officious  care,    920 
And  all  the  fpeed  her  aged  limbs  can  bear. 
But  furious  Dido,  with  dark  thoughts  involv'd. 
Shook  at  the  mighty  mifchief  fhe  refolv'd. 
With  livid  fpots  diftinguifh'd  was  her  face. 
Red  were  her  rolling  eyes,  and  difcompos'd  her  pace: 
Ghafdy  (he  gaz'd,  with  pain  fhe  drew  her  breath. 
And  nature  fhiver'd  at  approaching  death. 

Then  fwiftly  to  the  fatal  place  fhe  pafs'd. 
And  mounts  the  funeral  pile,  with  furious  hafte: 
Uniheaths  the  fword  the  Trojan  left  behind  930 

(Not  for  fo  dire  an  enterprize  defign'd). 
But  when  fhe  view'd  the  garments  loofely  fpread. 
Which  once  he  wore,  and  faw  the  confcious  bed. 

She 


^3s  y 


JEN  E  IS,     BOOK    IV.  107 

She  paus'd,  and,  with  a  figh,  the  robes  embrac'd; 

Then  on  the  couch  her  trembling  body  caft,       935 

Reprefs'd  the  ready  tears,  and  fpoke  her  laft: 

Dear  pledges  of  my  love,  while  heaven  fo  pleas 'd. 

Receive  a  foul,  of  mortal  anguifh  eas'd  : 

My  fatal  courfe  is  finifh'dj  and  I  go, 

A  glorious  name,  among  the  ghofts  below.  940 

A  lofty  city  by  my  hands  is  rais'd; 

Pygmalion  punifh'd,  and  my  lord  appeas'd. 

What  could  my  fortune  have  afforded  more. 

Had  the  falfe  Trojan  never  touch'd  my  Ihore? 

Then  kifs'd  the  couch;  and  muft  I  die,  Ihe  faid,    94^ 

And  unreveng'd  ?  'tis  doubly  to  be  dead ! 

Yet  ev'n  this  death  with  pleafure  I  receive; 

On  any  terms,  'tis  better  than  to  live. 

Thefe  flames  from  far  may  the  falfe  Trojan  view; 

Thefe  boding  omens  his  bafe  flight  purfue.  9^;© 

She  faid,  and  {Iruck.     Deep  enter'd  in  her  flde 

The  piercing  fl:eel,  with  reeking  purple  dy'd : 

Clogg'd  in  the  wound  the  cruel  weapon  ftands; 

The  fpouting  blood  came  ftreaming  on  her  hands. 

Her  fad  attendants  faw  the  deadly  ftroke,  95'^ 

And,  with  loud  cries,  the  founding  palace  fliook, 

Diftradled  from  the  fatal  flght  they  fled. 

And  through  the  town  the  difmal  rumour  fpread. 

Firft  from  the  frighted  court  the  yell  began. 

Redoubled  thence  from  houfe  to  houfe  it  ran :         960 

The  groans  of  men,  with  Ihrieks,  laments,  and  cries 

Of  mixing  women,  mount  the  vaulted  Ikies, 

Not 


105  DRYDEN*S    VIRGIL. 

Not  lefs  the  clamour,  than  if  ancient  Tyre, 

Or  the  new  Carthage,  fet  by  foes  on  fire. 

The  rolling  ruin,  with  their  lov'd  abodes,  9^5 

Involv'd  the  blazing  temples  of  their  gods. 

Her  filler  hears,  and,  furious  with  defpair. 

She  beats  her  breaft,  and  rends  her  yellow  hair  : 

And,  calling  on  Eliza's  name  aloud. 

Runs  breathlefs  to  the  place,  and  breaks  the  crowd. 

Was  all  that  pomp  of  woe  for  this  prepar'd, 

Thefe  fires,  this  funeral  pile,  thefe  altars  rear'd? 

Was  all  this  train  of  plots  contriv'd,  faid  fhe. 

All  only  to  deceive  unhappy  me  ? 

Which  is  the  worft  ?  Didft  thou  in  death  pretend   975 

To  fcorn  thy  filler,  or  delude  thy  friend? 

Thy  fummon'd  filler,  and  thy  friend,  had  come; 

One  fword  had  ferv'd  us  both,  one  common  tomb. 

Was  I  to  raife  the  pile,  the  powers  invoke. 

Not  to  be  prefent  at  the  fatal  ftroke?  ■  9S0 

At  once  thou  hall  dellroy'd  thyfelf  and  me; 

Thy  town,  thy  fenate,  and  thy  colony  I 

Bring  water,  bathe  the  wound ;  while  I  in  death 

Lay  clofe  my  lips  to  her's,  and  catch  the  flying  breath. 

This  faid,  Ihe  mounts  the  pile  with  eager  halle,     985 

And  in  her  arms  the  gafping  queen  embrac'd : 

Her  temples  chaf 'd,  and  her  own  garments  tore. 

To  Haunch  the  llreaming  blood,  and  cleanfe  the  gore# 

Thrice  Dido  try'd  to  raife  her  drooping  head. 

And  fainting  thrice^  fell  groveling  on  the  bed,      990 

Thrice 


iE  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    IV.  1C9 

Thrice  op'd  her  heavy  eyes,  and  faw  the  light. 


} 


But,  having  found  it,  ficken'd  at  the  fight. 
And  clos'd  her  lids  at  laft  in  endlefs  night. 

Then  Juno,  grieving  that  fhe  Ihould  fuflain 
A  death  fo  lingering,  and  fo  full  of  pain,  gg^ 

Sent  Iris  down,  to  free  her  from  the  ftrife 
Of  labouring  nature,  and  diffolve  her  life. 
For,  fince  fhe  dy'd,  not  doom'd  by  heaven's  decree. 
Or  her  own  crime,  but  human  cafuaky. 
And  rage  of  love,  that  plungd  her  in  defpair,      lOOO 
The  fifters  had  not  cut  the  topmoft  hair. 
Which  Proferpine  and  they  can  only  know. 
Nor  made  her  facred  to  the  fhades  below. 
Downward  the  various  goddefs  took  her  flight. 
And  drew  a  thoufand  colours  from  the  light :        1005 
Then  ftood  above  the  dying  lover's  head. 
And  faid,  I  thus  devote  thee  to  the  dead. 
This  offering  to  th'  infernal  gods  I  bear : 
Thus  while  Ihe  fpoke  Ihe  cut  the  fatal  hair : 
The  llruggling  foul  was  loos'd,  and  life  diiTolv'd  in 
air. 


THE 


r  1^0  ] 

THE 
FIFTH        BOOK 

OF     THE 

-ffi  N  E  I  S. 

THE     ARGUMENT. 

iEneas,  fetting  fail  from  Afric,  is  driven,  by  a  florin,  on 
the  coafl  of  Sicily :  where  he  is  hofpitably  received 
by  his  friend  Aceftes,  king  of  part  of  the  ifland,  and 
born  of  Trojan  parentage.  He  applies  himfelf  to  ce- 
lebrate the  memory  of  his  father  with  divine  honours ; 
and  accordingly  inflitutes  funeral  games,  and  ap- 
points prizes  for  thofe  who  fhould  conquer  in  them. 
While  the  ceremonies  were  performing,  Juno  fends 
Iris  to  perfuade  the  Trojan  women  to  bum  the  fhips ; 
who,  upon  her  inftigation,  fet  fire  to  them,  v/hich 
burnt  four,  and  would  have  confumed  the  refl,  had 
not  Jupiter,  by  a  miraculous  fhower,  extinguifned  it. 
Upon  this  ^neas,  by  the  advice  of  one  of  his  ge- 
nerals, and  a  viflon  of  his  father,  builds  a  city  for 
the  women,  old  men,  and  others,  who  were  either 
unfit  for  war,  or  weary  of  the  voyage,  and  fails  for 
Italy :  Venus  procures  of  Neptune  a  fafe  voyage  for 

hira 


} 


^NEIS.     BOOK    V.  ,if 

him  and  all  his  men,  excepting  only  his  pilot  Pali- 
nurus,  who  was  unfortunately  loft. 

TV /TE  AN  TIME  the  Trojan  cuts  his  watery  way, 
•^^^  Fix'd  on  his  voyage  through  the  curling  fea: 
Then,  cafting  back  his  eyes,  with  dire  amaze. 
Sees,  on  the  Punic  Ihore,  the  mounting  blaze. 
The  caufe  unknown ;  yet  his  prefaging  mind 
The  fate  of  Dido  from  the  fire  divin'd : 
He  knew  the  ftormy /ouls  of  woman-kind. 
What  fecret  fp rings  their  eager  pafEons  move. 
How  capable  of  death  for  injur'd  love. 
Dire  auguries  from  hence  the  Trojans  draw,  jo 

Till  neither  fires  nor  fhining  fhores  they  faw. 
Now  feas  and  Ikies  their  profpect  only  bound. 
An  empty  fpace  above,  a  floating  field  around. 
But  foon  the  heavens  with  fhadows  were  oerfpread; 
A  fwelling  cloud  hung  hovering  o'er  their  head;       i  r 
Livid  it  look'd,  ihe  threatening  of  a  ftorm; 
Then  night  and  horror  ocean  s  face  deform. 
The  pilot,  Palinurus,  cry'd  aloud. 
What  gufts  of  weather  from  that  gathering  cloud 
My  thoughts  prefage!   Ere  yei  the  tempeft  roars       20 
Stand  to  your  tackle,  mates,  and  ftretch  your  oars; 
Contrad  your  fwelling  fails,  and  luff  to  wind: 
The  frighted  crew  perform  the  tafic  afiign'd. 
Then,  to  his  fearlefs  chief.  Not  heaven,  faid  he,      "1 
Though  Jove  himfelf  ihould  promife  Italy,  25  > 

Can  Hem  the  torrent  of  this  raging  fea  I  J 

Mark 


tia  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Mark  how  the  Ihifting  winds  from  weft  arife, 

And  what  colledled  night  involves  the  Ikies! 

Nor  can  our  fhaken  veflels  live  at  fea;  "i 

Much  lefs  againft  the  tempeft  force  their  way;      $0  > 

'Tis  fate  diverts  our  courfe,  and  fate  we  muft  obey.  J 

Not  far  frorri  hence,  if  I  obferv'd  aright 

The  fouthing  of  the  ftars,  and  polar  light, 

Sicilia  lies ;  whofe  hofpitable  fhores 

In  fafety  we  may  reach  with  ftruggling  oars.  3^ 

^neas  then  reply'd.  Too  fure  I  find. 

We  ftrive  in  vain  againft  the  feas  and  wind  : 

Now  Ihift  your  fails :  what  place  can  pleafe  me  more 

That  what  you  promife,  the  Sicilian  fhore; 

Whofe  hallow'd  earth  Anchifes'  bones  contains,       40 

And  where  a  prince  of  Trojan  lineage  reigns! 

The  courfe  refolv'd,  before  the  weftern  wind 

They  feud  amain,  and  make  the  port  affign'd. 

Meantime  Aceftes,  from  a  lofty  ftand. 
Beheld  the  fleet  defcending  on  the  land;  4^ 

And,  not  unmindful  of  his  ancient  race, 
Down  from  the  cliff  he  ran  with  eager  pace. 
And  held  the  hero  in  a  ftrid  embrace. 
Of  a  rough  Libyan  bear  the  fpoils  he  worej 
And  either  hand  a  pointed  javelin  bore.  50 

His  mother  was  a  dame  of  Dardan  blood; 
His  fire  Crinifius,  a  Sicilian  flood ; 
He  welcomes  his  returning  friends  afhore 
With  plenteous  country  cates,  and  homely  ftore. 

Now,  when  the  following  mom  had  chac*d  away    ^^ 
The  flying  ftars,  and  light  reftor'd  the  day, 

^neas 


} 


^NEIS.     BOOK    V.  iij 

^neas  call'd  the  Trojan  troops  around. 
And  thus  befpoke  them  from  a  rifmg  ground : 
Offspring  of  heaven,  divine  Dardanian  race. 
The  fun  revolving  through  th'  ethereal  fpace,  60 

The  (hining  circle  of  the  year  has  fill'd. 
Since  firft  this  ifle  my  father's  afhes  held : 
And  now  the  riling  day  renews  the  year 
(A  day  for  ever  fad,  for  ever  dear). 
This  would  I  celebrate  with  annual  games,  6^ 

With  gifts  on  altars  pil'd,  and  holy  flames. 
Though  banifh'd  to  Getulia's  barren  fands. 
Caught  on  the  Grecian  feas,  or  hoftile  lands : 
But  fmce  this  happy  ftorm  our  fleet  has  driven 
(Not,  as  I  deem,  without  the  will  of  heaven)  70 

Upon  thefe  friendly  Ihores  and  flowery  plains. 
Which  hide  Anchifes,  and  his  bleft  remains. 
Let  us  with  joy  perform  his  honours  due. 
And  pray  for  profperous  winds,  out  voyage  to  renew. 
Pray,  that  in  towns  and  temples  of  our  own,        75 
The  name  of  great  Anchifes  may  be  known. 
And  yearly  games  may  fpread  the  god's  renown. 
Our  fports,  Acelles,  of  the  Trojan  race, 
With  royal  gifts  ordain'd,  is  pleas'd  to  grace: 
Two  fteers  on  every  Ihip  the  king  bellows ;  80 

His  gods  and  ours  fhall  fliare  your  equal  vows. 
Befides,  if  nine  days  hence,  the  rofy  mom 
Shall,  with  unclouded  light,  the  ikies  adorn. 
That  day  with  folemn  fports  I  mean  to  grace : 
Light  gallles  on  the  feas  Ihall  run  a  watery  race.       85 
Vol,  XXIU,  I  Some 


} 


,14.  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

Some  fhall  in  fwiftnefs  for  the  goal  contend. 

And  others  try  the  twanging  bow  to  bend : 

The  ftrong  with  iron  gauntlets  arm'd  fhall  ftand, 

Oppos'd  in  combat  on  the  yellow  fand. 

Let  all  be  prefent  at  the  games  prepar'd,  90 

And  joyful  viftors  v.-ait  the  juft  reward. 

But  now  affifi  the  rites,  with  garlands  crown'd; 

He  faid,  and  firft  his  brows  with  myrtle  bound. 

Then  Helym.us,  by  his  example  led. 

And  old  Aceftes,  each  adorn'd  his  head;  9^ 

Thus  young  Afcanius,  with  a  fprightly  grace. 
His  temples  ty'd,  and  all  the  Trojan  race, 

^neas  then  advanc'd  amidft  the  train, 
!By  thoufands  follow'd  through  the  flowery  plain. 
To  great  Anchifes'  tomb:  which,  when  he  found,  100 
He  pour'd  to  Bacchus,  on  the  hallow'd  ground. 
Two  bowls  of  fparkling  wine,  of  milk  two  more. 
And  two  from  offer'd  bulls  of  purple  gore. 
With  rofes  then  the  fepulchre  he  ftrow'd; 
And  thus  his  father's  ghoft  befpoke  aloud;  10^ 

Kail,  O  ye  holy  manes!  hail  again 
Paternal  aihes,  now  review'd  in  vain! 
The  gods  permitted  not  that  you,  with  me,  "j 

Should  reach  the  promis'd  fhores  of  Italy;  I 

Or  Tyber's  flood,  what  flood  foeer  it  be.  i  loj 

Scarce  had  he  finifh'd,  when,  with  fpeckled  pride, 
A  ferpent  from  the  tomb  began  to  glide; 
His  hugy  bulk  on  feven  high  volumes  rolFd; 
Blue  was  his  breadth  of  back,  but  ftreak"d  with  fcaly 
gold: 

Thus 


iENEIS.     BOOK    V.  ii^ 

Thus,  riding  on  his  curls,  he  feem'd  to  pafs  ii^ 

A  rolling  fire  along,  and  finge  the  grafs. 

More  various  colours  through  his  body  run. 

Than  Iris,  when  her  bow  imbibes  the  fun: 

Betwixt  the  riling  altars,  and  around. 

The  facred  monfter  fhot  along  the  ground;  120 

Vv''ith  harmlefs  play  amidll  the  bowls  he  pafs'd. 

And,  with  his  lolling  tongue,  aflay'd  the  tafte: 

Thus  fed  with  holy  food,  the  wondrous  gueft 

Within  the  hollow  tomb  retir'd  to  reft. 

The  pious  prince,  furpriz'd  at  what  he  view'd,       izj; 

The  funeral  honours  with  more  zeal  renew'd : 

Doubtful  if  this  the  place's  genius  were. 

Or  guardian  of  his  father's  fepulchre. 

Five  fheep,  according  to  the  rites,  he  flew. 

As  many  fwine,  and  fteers  of  fable  hue;  130 

Now  generous  wine  he  from  the  goblets  pour'd. 

And  call'd  his  father's  ghoft,  from  hell  reftord. 

The  glad  attendants  in  long  order  come. 

Offering  their  gifts  at  great  Anchifes'  tomb; 

Some  add  more  oxen;-  fome  divide  the  fpoil;       135  1 

Some  place  the  chargers  on  the  grafly  foil ;  > 

Some  blow  the  fires,  and  offer'd  entrails  broil.  J 

Now  came  the  day  defir'd :  the  Ikies  were  bright 
With  rofy  luftre  of  the  rifing  light : 
The  bordering  people,  rouzd  by  founding  fame     140 
Of  Trojan  feafts,  and  great  Aceftes'  name. 
The  crowded  fhore  with  acclamations  fill, 
Part  to  behold,  and  part  to  prove  their  I'tdU, 

1  z  And 


} 


lis  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

And  firft  the  gifts  in  public  view  they  place. 

Green  laurel  wreaths,  and  palm  (the  vidor's  grace) : 

Within  the  circle,  arms  and  tripods  lie. 

Ingots  of  gold,  and  filver  heap'd  on  high. 

And  vefts  embroider'd  of  the  Tyrian  dye. 

The  trum.pet's  clangor  then  the  feaft  proclaims. 

And  all  prepare  for  their  appointed  games.  1 50 

Four  gallies  firft,  with  equal  rowers  bear. 

Advancing,  in  the  v.  atery  lifts  appear* 

The  fpeedy  Dolphin,  that  outftrips  the  wind. 

Bore  Mneftheus,  author  of  the  Memmian  kind: 

Gyas  the  vaft  Chimaera's  bulk  commands,  15^ 

Which  rifing  like  a  towering  city  ftands : 

Three  Trojans  tug  at  every  labouring  oar;  ^^ 

Three  banks  in  three  degrees  the  failors  bore;  > 

Eeneath  their  fturdy  ftrokes  the  billows  roar.  J 

Sergefthus,  who  began  the  Sergi-an  race,  160 

In  the  great  Centaur  took  the  leading  place : 

Cloanthus  on  the  fea-green  ScyUa  flood. 

From  whom  Cluentius  draws  his  Trojan  blood. 

Far  in  the  fea,  againft  the  foaming  (hore. 

There  ftands  a  rock;  the  raging  billows  roar  16^ 

Above  his  head  in  ftorms ;  but,  when  'tis  clear. 

Uncurl  their  ridgy  backs,  and  at  his  foot  appear. 

In  peace  below  the  gentle  waters  run ; 

The  cormorants  above  lie  balking  in  the  fun. 

On  this  the  hero  fix'd  an  oak  in  fight,  1 70 

The  mark  to  guide  the  mariners  aright. 

To  bear  with  this,  the  feamen  ftretch  their  oars; 

Then  round  the  rock  they  fteer,  and  feek  the  former 

Ihores, 

The 


^NEIS.     BOOK    V.  117 

The  lots  decide  their  place :  above  the  reft. 
Each  leader  fhining  in  his  Tyrian  veil:  17^ 

The  common  crew,  with  wreaths  of  poplar  boughs. 
Their  temples  crown,  and  (hade  their  fvveaty  brows. 
Befmear'd  with  oil,  their  naked  fnoulders  Ihine : 
All  take  their  feats,  and  wait  the  founding  fign. 
They  gripe  their  oars,  and  every  panting  bread      1 80 
Is  rais'd  by  turns  with  hope,  by  turns  with  fear  de- 

prefs'd. 
The  clangor  of  the  trumpet  gives  the  fign; 
At  cnce  they  dart  advancing  in  a  line. 
With  fhouts  the  failors  rend  the  ftarry  fkies;  1 

Lafh"d  with  their  oars,  the  fmoky  billows  rife;    185  I 
Sparkles  the  briny  main,  and  the  vex 'd  ocean  fries. 
Exaft  in  time,  with  equal  ftrokes  they  row: 
At  once  the  brufliing  oars  and  brazen  prow 
Dafh  up  the  fandy  waves,  and  ope  the  depths  below. 
Not  fiery  courfers,  in  a  chariot  race,  190 

Invade  the  field  with  half  fo  fwift  a  pace. 
Not  the  fierce  driver  with  more  fury  lends  T 

The  founding  lafh ;  and,  ere  the  ftroke  dcfcends,      > 
Low  to  the  wheels  his  pliant  body  bends.  J 

The  partial  crowd  their  hopes  and  fears  divide,       195' 
And  aid,  with  eager  fhouts,  the  favour'd  fide. 
Cries,  murmurs,  clamours,  with  a  mixing  found. 
From  woods  to  woods,  from  hills  to  hills  rebound. 

Amidft  the  loud  applaufes  of  the  fhore, 
Gyas  outftripp'd  the  rcfl,  and  fprung  before;  200 

Cloanthus,  better  mann'd,  purfu'd  him  fall; 
But  his  o'er-malled  galley  check'd  his  hafte. 

I  3  The 


..} 


iig  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

The  Centaur,  and  the  Dolphin  brufli  the  brine 
With  equal  oars,  advancing  in  a  line: 
And  now  the  mighty  Centaur  feems  to  lead,  205 

And  now  the  fpeedy  Dolphin  gets  a-head : 
Now  board  to  board  the  rival  veflels  row ; 
The  billows  lave  the  ikies,  and  ocean  groans  below. 
They  reach'd  the  mark;  proud  Gyas  and  his  train 
In  triumph  rode  the  victors  of  the  main ;  210 

But  fleering  round,  he  charg'd  his  pilot  ftand 
More  clofe  to  fhore,  and  Ikim  along  the  fand. 
Let  others  bear  to  fea.  Menastes  heard. 
But  fecret  Ihelves  too  cautiouily  he  fear'd  : 
A.nd,  fearing,  fought  the  deep;  and  ftill  aloof  he 
fleer'd.  215 

With  louder  cries  the  captain  calt'd  again ; 
Bear  to  the  rocky  fhore,  and  ihun  the  main. 
He  fpoke,  and,  fpeaking  at  his  ftern,  he  faw 
The  bold  Cloanthus  near  the  fhelvings  draw : 
Betwixt  the  mark  and  him  the  Scylla  ftood,  220 

And,  in  a  clofer  compafs,  plow'd  the  flood: 
He  pafs'd  the  mark,  and  wheeling  got  before : 
Gyas  blafphem'd  the  gods,  devoutly  fwore, 
Cry'd  out  for  anger,  and  his  hair  he  tore. 
Mindlefs  of  others  lives  (fo  high  was  grown  225 

His  riling  rage)  and  carelefs  of  his  own. 
The  trembling  dotard  to  the  deck  he  drew. 
And  hoifted  up,  and  over-board  he  threw : 
This  done  he  feiz'd  the  helm,  his  fellows  cheer'd, 
Turn'd  Ihort  upon  the  Ihelves,,  and  madly  lleer'd.  230 

Hardly 


} 


JE  N  E  I  S,     B  O  O  K    V.  119 

Hardly  his  head  the  plunging  pilot  rears, 
Clogg'd  with  his  clothes,  and  cumber'd  with  his  years : 
Now  dropping  wet,  he  climbs  the  clifFwith  pain; 
The  crowd,  that  faw  him  fall,  and  float  again. 
Shout  from  the  diftant  fhore,  and  loudly  laugh'd,  23  j; 
To  fee  his  heaving  breaft  difgorge  the  briny  draught. 
The  following  Centaur,  and  the  Dolphin's  crew. 
Their  vanifh'd  hopes  of  viftory  renew : 
While  Gyas  lags,  they  kindle  in  the  race. 
To  reach  the  mark :  Sergefthus  takes  the  place :      240 
Mnefiheus  purfues;   and,  while  around  they  wind. 
Comes  up,   not  half  his  galley's  length  behind. 
Then  on  the  deck  amidll  his  mates  appear'd. 
And  thus  their  drooping  courages  he  chear'd : 
My  friends,  and  Hedlor's  followers  heretofore,      24^ 
Exert  your  vigour;  tug  the  labouring  oar; 
Stretch  to  your  ftrokes,  my  ftill-unconquer'd  crew. 
Whom  from  the  flaming  walls  of  Troy  I  drew. 
In  this,  our  common  intereft,  let  me  find 
That  ftrength  of  hand,  that  courage  of  the  mind,  250 
As  when  you  ftemm'd  the  {Irong  Malayan  flood. 
And  o'er  the  Syrtes  broken  billows  row'd, 
I  feek  not  now  the  foremoft  palm  to  gain ;  "j 

Though  yet — But  ah,   that  haughty  wifli  is  vain !       |- 
Let  thofe  enjoy  it  whom  the  gods  ordain,  '^SS-^ 

But  to  be  laft,  the  lags  of  all  the  race. 
Redeem  yourfelyes  and  me  from  that  difgrace. 
Now  one  and  all,  they  tug  amain;  they  row 
At  the  full  llretch,  and  fliake  the  brazen  prow. 

I  4  The 


320  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

The  fea  beneath  them  fmks :  their  labouring  fides   260 

Are  fvvell'd,  and  fweat  runs  guttering  down  in  tides. 

Chance  aids  their  daring  with  unhop'd  fuccefs; 

Sergefthus,  eager  with  his  beak,  to  prefs 

Betwixt  the  rival  galley  and  the  rock. 

Shuts  th*  unwieldy  Centaur  in  the  lock.  265 

The  veflcl  ftruck;  and,  with  the  dreadful  fhock. 

Her  oars  ihe  fhiver'd,  and  her  head  fhe  broke. 

The  trembling  rowers  from  their  banks  arife. 

And,  anxious  for  themfelves,  renounce  the  prize. 

With  iron  poles  they  heave  her  off  the  {hores ;         2 70 

And  gather,  from  the  fea,  their  floating  oars. 

The  crew  of  Mneftheus,  with  elated  minds. 

Urge  their  fuccefs,  and  call  the  willing  winds : 

Then  ply  their  oars,  and  cut  their  liquid  way 

In  larger  compafs  on  the  roomy  fea.  27^ 

As  when  the  dove  her  rocky  hold  forfakes, 

Rouz'd  in  a  fright,  her  founding  wings  fhe  fhakes^ 

The  cavern  rings  with  clattering  j  out  Ihe  flies. 

And  leaves  her  callow  care,  and  cleaves  the  Ikies; 

At  firfl:  fhe  flutters;  but  at  length  fhe  fprings  280 

To  fmoother  flight,  and  flioots  upon  her  wings; 

So  Mneftheus  in  the  Dolphin  cuts  the  fea. 

And,  flying  with  a  force,  that  force  alTifts  his  way, 

Sergefthus  in  the  Centaur  foon  he  pafs'd, 

Wedg'd  in  the  rocky  {hoals,  and  flicking  faft.         285 

In  vain  the  vidor  he  with  cries  implores. 

And  pradifes  to  row  with  ftiatter'd  oars. 

Then  Mneftheus  bears  with  Gyas,  and  out-flies: 

The  Ihip  without  a  pilot  yields  the  prize. 

Unvanquifli'd 


wffiTNEIS.     BOOK    V,  m 

Unvanquifh'd  Scylla  now  alone  remains;  290 

Her  he  purfues,  and  all  his  vigour  ftrains. 

Shouts  from  the  favouring  multitude  arife. 

Applauding  echo  to  the  ihouts  replies; 

ShoutSy  wilhes,  and  applaufe,   run  rattling  through 

the  Ikies. 

Thefe  clamours  witlidirdain  the  Scylla  heard,        29^ 
Much  gradg'd  the  praife,  but  more  the  robb'd  reward  % 
Refolv'd  to  hold  their  own,  they  mend  their  pace; 
All  obftinate  to  die,  or 'gain  the  race.^ 
Rais'd  with  fuccefs,  the  Dolphin  fwiftly  ran 
(For  they  can  conquer  who  believe  they  can) :        300 
Both  urge  their  oars,  and  fortune  both  fupplies. 
And  both  perhaps  had  fnar'd  an  equal  prize : 
When  to  the  feas  Cloanthus  holds  his  hands,. 
And  fuccour  from- the  watery  powers  demands; 
Gods  of  the  liquid  realms,  on  which  I  row,       30c  "] 
If,  glv'n  by  you,  the  laurel  bind  my  brow,  > 

Aflift  to  make  me  guilty  of  my  vow.  J 

A  fnow-white  bull  fhall  on  your  Ihore  be  llain. 
His  ofFer'd  entrails  caft  into  the  main : 
And  ruddy  wine,  from  golden  goblets  throv/n,      3 1  o 
Your  graceful  gift  and  my  return  fhall  own. 
The  choir  of  nymphs,  and  Phorcus  from  below. 
With  virgin  Panopea,  heard  his  vow ; 
And  old  Portunos,  with  his  breadth  of  hand, 
Pufh'd  on,  and  fped  the  galley  to  the  land.  31^ 

Swift  as  a  fhaft,  on  winged  wind,  ihe  flies; 
Andj  darting  to  the  port,  obtains  the  prize. 

The 


j2«  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

The  herald  fummons  all,  and  then  proclaims 

Cloanthus  conqueror  of  the  naval  games. 

The  prince  with  laurel  crowns  the  viftor's  head,     320 

And  three  fat  fleers  are  to  his  veffel  led ; 

The  fhip's  reward :   with  generous  wine  befide. 

And  fums  of  filver,  which  the  crew  divide. 

The  leaders  are  diftinguifh'd  from  the  reft. 

The  victor  honoured  with  a  nobler  veft:  325 

Where  gold  and  purple  ftrive  in  equal  rows. 

And  needle-work  its  happy  coll  bellows. 

There,  Ganymede  is  wrought  with  living  art, 

Chacing  through  Ida's  groves  the  trembling  hart; 

Breathlefs  he  feems,  yet  eager  to  purfue: 

When  from  aloft  defcends,  in  open  view. 

The  bird  of  Jove;  and,  foufmg  on  his  prey. 

With  crooked  talons  bears  the  boy  away. 

In  vain,  with  lifted  hands  and  gazing  eyes,  "| 

His  guards  behold  him  foaring  through  the  ikies,       > 

And  dogs  purfue  his  flight,  with  imitated  cries.       J 

Mnefiheus  the  fecond  vidor  was  declar'd ; 
And  fummon'd  there,  the  fecond  prize  he  fhar'd : 
A  coat  of  mail,  which  brave  Demoleus  bore,  1 

More  brave  ^neas  from  his  fhoulders  tore,         34°  f 
In  fmgle  combat  on  the  Trojan  fhore,  J 

This  was  ordain'd  for  Mnefiheus  to  pofTefs, 
In  war  for  his  defence ;  for  ornament  in  peace : 
Rich  was  the  gift,  and  glorious  to  behold ; 
But  yet,  fo  ponderous  with  its  plates  of  gold,        34^ 

That 


^NEIS.      BOOK    V.  laj 

That  fcarce  two  fenants  could  the  weight  fuftain,    '\ 

Yet,  loaded  thus,  Demoleus  o'er  the  plain  > 

Purfued,  and  lightly  feiz'd  the  Trojan  train.  J 

The  third  fucceeding  to  the  lad  reward. 

Two  goodly  bowls  of  malTy  filver  fliar'd;  350 

With  figures  prominent,  and  richly  wrought. 

And  two  brafs  cauldrons  from  Dodona  brought. 

Thus,  all  rewarded  by  the  hero's  hands. 
Their  conquering  temples  bound  with  purple  bands. 
And  now  Sergefthus,  clearing  from  the  rock,  35^ 

Brought  back  his  galley  Ihatter'd  with  the  fhock. 
Forlorn  ihe  look'd  without  an  aiding  oar. 
And,  hooted  by  the  vulgar,  made  to  fhore. 
As  when  a  fnake,  furpriz'd  upon  the  road. 
Is  crufli'd  athwart  her  body  by  the  load  360 

Of  heavy  wheels;   or  with  a  mortal  wound 
Her  belly  bruis'd,  and  trodden  to  the  ground. 
In  vain,  with  loofen'd  curls,  fhe  crawls  along. 
Yet  fierce  above,  Ihe  brandifhes  her  tongue : 
Glares  with  her  eyes,  and  brillles  with  her  fcales,   36^ 
But,  groveling  in  the  dull,  her  parts  unfound  fhe  trails! 
So  llowly  to  the  port  the  Centaur  tends. 
But  what  fhe  wants  in  oars  with  f:\ils  amends ; 
Yet,  for  his  galley  fav'd,  the  grateful  prince 
Is  pleas'd  th'  unhappy  chief  to  recompenfe.  370 

Pholce,  the  Cretan  Have,  rewards  his  care. 
Beauteous  herfelf,  with  lovely  twins,  as  fair. 
From  thence  his  way  the  Trojan  hero  bent. 
Into  the  neighbouring  plain,  with  mountains  pent, 

Whofe 


r24  DR  YD  EN'S    VIRGIL. 

Whofe  fides  were  fhaded  with  furrounding  wood:  ^j^ 

Full  in  the  midft  of  this  fair  valley  Hood 

A  native  theatre,  which  riling  flow. 

By  juft  degrees,  o'erlook'd  the  ground  below. 

High  on  a  fylvan  throne  the  leader  fate, 

A  numerous  train  attend  in  folemn  (late ;  380 

Here  thofe,  that  in  the  rapid  courfe  delight, 

Defire  of  honour  and  the  prize  invite: 

The  rival  runners  without  order  ftand. 

The  Trojans,  mix'd  with  the  Sicilian  band. 

Firft  Nifus  with  Euryalus  appears, 

Euryalus  a  boy  of  blooming  years ;  ^S^~ 

"With  fprightly  grace,  and  equal  beauty  crown 'd : 

Nifus,  for  friendfhip  to  the  youth  renown 'd, 

Diores  next,  of  Priam's  royal  race. 

Then  Salius,  join'd  with  Patron,  took  their  place:  390 

Eut  Patron  in  Arcadia  had  his  birth. 

And  Salius  his  from  Acarnanian  earth. 

Then  two  Sicilian  youths,  the  names  of  thefe 

Swift  Helymus,  and  lovely  Panopes, 

Both  jolly  huntfmen,  both  in  foreft  bred,  395 

And  owning  old  Aceftes  for  their  head. 

With  feveral  others  of  ignobler  name. 

Whom  time  has  not  deliver'd  o'er  to  fame. 

To  thefe  the  hero  thus  his  thoughts  explain 'd  : 
In  words,  which  general  approbation  gain'd  :  400 

One  common  largefs  is  for  all  defign'd; 
The  vanquifh'd  and  the  vidor  Ihall  be  join'd. 
Two  darts  of  polifh'd  fteel  and  Gnofian  wood, 
A  filver-lludded  ax  alike  beftow'd. 

The 


^NEIS.     BOOK    V.  JZ5 

The  foremoft  three  have  olive  wreaths  decreed;      405" 

The  firfl  of  thefe  obtains  a  {lately  fteed 

Adorn "d  with  trappings;  and  the  next  in  fame. 

The  quiver  of  an  Amazonian  dame. 

With  feather'd  Thracian  arrows  well  fupply'd;  "^ 

A  golden  belt  Ihall  gird  his  manly  iide,  410  f 

Which  vvdth  a  fparkling  diamond  fhall  be  ty'd :  J 

The  third  this  Grecian  helmet  fhall  content. 

He  faid :   to  their  appointed  bafe  they  went : 

W^ith  beating  hearts  th'  €xpe(fl-ed  iign  receive. 

And,  flatting  all  at  once,  the  barrier  leave.  41^ 

Spread  out,  as  on  the  winged  winds,  they  flew. 

And  feiz'd  the  diftant  goal  v^'ith  greedy  view. 

Shot  from  the  crowd,  fwift  Nifus  all  o'er-pafs'd; 

Nor  ftorms,  nor  thunder,  equal  half  his  hafte. 

The  next,  but  though  the  next  yet  far  disjoin'd,    420 

C^me  Salius,  and  Euryalus  behind; 

Then  Helymus,  whom  young  Diores  ply'd. 

Step  after  ftep,  and  almoft  fide  by  fide : 

His  flioulders  prefilng,  and  in  longer  fpace 

Had  won,  or  left  at  leaft  a  dubious  race.  42 f 

Now  fpent,  the  goal  they  almoft  reach  at  lafl ; 
When  eager  Nifus,  haplefs  in  his  hafte, 
Slipp'd  firft,  and,  flipping  fell  upon  the  plain, 
Soak'd  with  the  blood  of  oxen  newly  flain : 
The  carelefs  viftor  had  not  mark'd  his  way;  4^9 

But,  treading  where  the  treacherous  puddle  lay. 
His  heels  flew  up ;  and  on  the  grafify  floor. 
He  fell,  befoiear'd  with  filth  and  holy  gore, 

Not 


izS  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Not  mindlefs  then,  Euryalus,  of  thee. 
Nor  of  the  facred  bonds  of  amity,  43  r 

He  ftrove  th'  immediate  rival's  hope  to  crofs. 
And  caught  the  foot  of  Salius  as  he  rofe : 
So  Salius  lay  extended  on  the  plain; 
Euryalus  fprings  out,  the  prize  to  gain. 
And  leaves  the  crowd :  applauding  peals  attend      440 
The  vidor  to  the  goal,  who  vanquilh'd  by  his  friend. 
Next  Helymus,  and  then  Diores  came. 
By  two  misfortunes  made  the  third  in  fame. 
But  Salius  enters;   and,  exclaiming  loud 
For  juitice,  deafens  and  difturbs  the  crowd  :  44c;' 

Urges  his  caufe  may  in  the  court  be  heard; 
And  pleads,  the  prize  is  wrongfully  conferr'd. 
But  favour  for  Euryalus  appears; 
His  blooming  beauty,  with  his  tender  years. 
Had  brib'd  the  judges  for  the  promis'd  prize;         450 
Beiides,  Diores  fills  the  court  with  cries : 
Who  -^'ainly  reaches  at  the  laft  reward. 
If  the  firfl  palm  on  Salius  be  conferr'd. 
Then  thus  the  prince:   Let  no  difputes  arife: 
Where  fortune  plac'd  it,  I  award  the  prize :  45^ 

But  fortune's  errors  give  me  leave  to  mend. 
At  leaft  to  pity  my  deferving  friend. 
He  faid :  and,  from  among  the  fpoils,  he  draws 
(Ponderous  with  fhaggy  mane  and  golden  paws) 
A  lion's  hide,  to  Salius  this  he  gives ;  460 

Nifus  with  envy  fees  the  gift,  and  grieves. 
If  fuch  rewards  to  vanquilh'd  men  are  due. 
He  faid,  and  falling  is  to  rife  by  you, 

5  What 


^  N  E  I  S.      B  O  O  K    V.  147 

WTiat  prize  may  Nifus  from  your  bounty  claim. 

Who  merited  the  firll  rewards  and  fame?  465 

In  falling,  both  an  equal  fortune  try'd; 

Would  fortune  for  my  fall  fo  well  provide! 

With  this  he  pointed  to  his  face,  and  fhow'd 

His  hands,  and  all  his  habit  fmear'd  with  blood, 

Th'  indulgent  father  of  the  people  fmil'd,  4-70 

And  caus'd  to  be  produc'd  an  ample  fnield 

Of  wondrous  art  by  Didymaon  wrought. 

Long  fmce  from  Neptune's  bars  in  triumph  brought. 

This  giv'n  to  Nifus,  he  divides  the  reft; 

And  equal  juftice,  in  his  gifts  exprefs'd,  4'y^ 

The  race  thus  ended,  and  rewards  beftow'd. 

Once  more  the  prince  befpeaks  the  attentive  crowd ; 

If  there  be  here,  whofe  dauntlefs  courage  dare 

In  gauntlet  fight,  with  limbs  and  body  bare. 

His  oppofite  fuftain  in  open  view,  480 

Stand  forth  the  champion,  and  the  games  renew. 

Two  prizes  I  propofe,  and  thus  divide; 

A  bull  with  gilded  horns,  and  fillets  ty.'d. 

Shall  be  the  portion  of  the  conquering  chief; 

A  fword  and  helm  fhall  chear  the  lofer's  grief,        48^ 

Then  haughty  Dares  in  the  lifts  appears ; 

Stalking  he  ftrides,  his  head  erefted  bears : 

His  nervous  arms  the  weighty  gauntlet  wield. 

And  loud  applaufes  echo  through  the  field. 

Dares  alone  in  combat  us'd  to  ftand,  490 

The  match  of  mighty  Paris  hand  to  hand; 

The  fame  at  Hedor's  funerals  undertook 

Gigantic  Butes,  of  th'  Amician  ftock; 

And, 


} 


iiS  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

And,  by  the  ftroke  of  his  refiftlefs  hand, 

Stretch'd  the  vaft  bulk  upon  the  yellow  fand.  49^ 

Such  Dares  was ;  and  fuch  he  ftrod  along. 

And  drew  the  wonder  of  the  gazing  throng. 

His  brawny  back,  an  ample  breaft  he  fhows; 

His  lifted  arms  around  his  head  he  throws ; 

And  deals  in  whiflling  air  his  empty  blows.         500 

His  match  is  fought;  but  through  the  trembling  band, 

Not  one  dares  anfwer  to  the  proud  demand. 

Prefuming  of  his  force,  with  fparkling  ey^.. 

Already  he  devours  the  promis'd  prize. 

He  .claims  the  bull  with  awlefs  infolence ;  ^o^ 

And,  having  feiz'd  his  horns,  accofts  the  prince; 

If  none  my  matchlefs  valour  dares  oppofe. 

How  long  fhall  Dares  wait  his  daftard  foes  ? 

Permit  me,  chief,  permit  without  delay. 

To  lead  this  uncontended  gift  away*  5 1  o 

The  crowd  affents;  and,  with  redoubled  cries. 

For  the  proud  challenger  demands  the  prize, 

Aceftes,  fir'd  with  juft  difdain,  to  fee 
The  palm  ufurp'd  without  a  vidory, 
Reproach'd  Entellus  thus,  who  fate  befide,  5 1 5 

And  heard,  and  faw  unmov'd,  the  Trojan's  pride : 
Once,  but  in  vain,  a  champion  of  renown. 
So  tamely  can  you  bear  the  ravifh'd  crown  ? 
A  prize  in  triumph,  borne  before  your  fight. 
And  fhun  for  fear  the  danger  of  the  fight;  520 

"V^'liere  is  our  Eryx  now,  the  boafted  name. 
The  god  who  taught  your  thundering  arm  the  game  ? 

Where 


^NETS.     BOOK    V.  zzy 

"Where  now  your  baffled  honour,  where  the  fpoil 
That  fill'd  your  houfe,  and  fame  that  fill'd  our  ifle? 
Entellus,  thus:  My  foul  is  ftill  the  fame;  52^ 

Unmov'd  with  fear,  and  mov'd  with  martial  fame: 
But  my  chill  blood  is  curdled  in  my  veins. 
And  fcarce  the  Ihadow  of  a  man  remains. 
Oh,  could  I  turn  to  that  fair  prime  again. 
That  prime,  of  which  this  boafler  is  fo  vain!         530 
The  brave  who  this  decrepit  age  defies. 
Should  feel  my  force,  without  the  promis*d  prize. 
He  faid,  and,  rifing  at  the  word,  he  threw 
Two  ponderous  gauntlets  down,  in  open  view; 
Gauntlets,  which  Eryx  wont  in  fight  to  wield,       53  j- 
And  fheath  his  hands  with  in  the  lifted  field. 
With  fear  and  wonder  feiz'd,  the  crowd  beholds 
The  gloves  of  death,  with  (tvcn.  diftinguifh'd  folds 
Of  tough  bull  hides ;   the  fpace  within  is  fpread 
With  iron,  or  with  loads  of  heavy  lead.  540 

Dares  himfelf  was  daunted  at  the  fight, 
Renounc'd  his  challenge,  and  refus'd  to  fight. 
Aftoniih'd  at  their  weight  the  hero  ftands. 
And  pois'd  the  ponderous  engines  in  his  hands. 
What  had  your  wonder,  faid  Entellus,  been,       ^^^  ^ 
Had  you  the  gauntlets  of  Alcides  feen,  > 

Or  view'd  the  ftem  debate  on  this  unhappy  green!    J 
Thefe  which  I  bear,  your  brother  Eryx  bore. 
Still  mark'd  with  batter'd  brains  and  mingled  gore. 
With  thefe  he  long  fuftain'd  th'  Herculean  arm; 
And  thefe  I  wielded  while  my  blood  was  warm ; 
Vol.  XXUL  K  Tliis 


130  DRYDEN^S     VIRGIL. 

This  languiih'd  frame  while  better  fpirits  fed. 

Ere  age  unftrung  my  nerves,  or  time  o'erfnow'd  my 

head. 
But,  if  the  challenger  thefe  arms  refufe. 
And  cannot  wield  their  weight,  or  dare  not  ufe;     ^^^ 
If  great  ^Eneas  and  Aceftes  join 
In  his  requell,  thefe  gauntlets  I  refign : 
Let  us  with  equal  arms  perform  the  fight, 
And  let  him  leave  to  fear,  lince  I  refign  my  tight. 
This  faid,  Entellus  for  the  ftrife  prepares;  ^60 

Stript  of  his  quilted  coat,  his  body  bares ; 
Composed  of  mighty  bones  and  brawn  he  Hands, 
A  goodly  towering  obje«5l  on  the  fands* 
Then  juft  ^neas  equal  arms  fupply'd. 
Which  round  their  Ihoulders  to  theirwrifls  they  ty'd; 
Both  on  the  tiptoe  (land,  at  full  extent; 
Their  arms  aloft,  their  bodies  inly  bent; 
Their  heads  from  aiming  blows  they  bear  afar; 
With  clafhing  gauntlets  then  provoke  the  war. 
One  on  his  youth  and  pliant  limbs  relies;  r^o 

One  on  his  fmews  and  his  »iant  fize. 
The  laft  is  ftitf  with  age,  his  motion  flow,  *| 

He  heaves  for  breath :  he  daggers  to  and  fro ;  > 

And  clouds  of  iffuingfmoke  his  noflrils  loudly  blow.  J 
Yet,  equal  in  fuccefs,  they  v.ard,  they  ftrike;        575 
Their  ways  are  different,  but  their  art  alike. 
Before,  behind,  the  blows  are  dealt;  around 
Their  hollow  fides  the  rattling  thumps  refound: 
A  fiorm  of  flrokes  well-meant  with  fury  flies. 
And  errs  about  their  temples,  ears,  and  eyes;        5'8o 

Nor 


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^NEIS.      BOOK    V.  iji 

l\or  al^^'ays  errs;  for  oft  the  gauntlet  draws 

A  fweeping  ftroke,  along  the  crackling  jaws. 

Heavy  with  age,  Entellus  ftands  his  ground. 

But,  with  his  warping  body,  wards  the  wound: 

His  hand  and  watchful  eye  keep  even  pace;  585" 

While  Dares  traverfes,  and  (hifts  his  place; 

And,  like  a  captain,  who  beleaguers  round 

Some  firong-built  caftle,  on  a  riiing  ground. 

Views  all  th'  approaches  with  obferving  eyes. 

This,  and  that  other  part,  in  vain  he  tries;       590 

And  more  on  induftry  than  force  relies. 

With  hands  on  high,  Entellus  threats  the  foe; 

But  Dares  watch'd  the  motion  from  below. 

And  llipt  afide,   and  fhunn'd  the  long-defcending 

blow. 

Entellus  waftes  his  forces  on  the  wind ;  59^ 

And  thus  deluded  of  the  flroke  defignd. 
Headlong  and  heavy  fell :  his  ample  breaft. 
And  weighty  limbs,  his  ancient  mother  prefs'd. 
So  falls  a  hollow  pine,   that  long  had  flood 
On  Ida's  height,  or  Erymanthus'  wood,  600 

Torn  from  the  roots :  the  differing  nations  rife. 
And  Ihouts,  and  mingled  murmurs,  rend  the  Ikies. 
Aceftes  runs,  with  eager  hade,  to  raife 
The  fall'n  companion  of  his  youthful  days : 
Dauntlefs  he  rofe,  and  to  the  fight  return'd,  605 

With  fhame  his  glowing  cheeks,  his  eyes  with  fury 

burn'd : 
Difdain  and  confcious  virtue  iir'd  his  breall. 
And,  with  redoubled  force,  his  foe  he  prefs'd, 

K  2  He 


} 
} 


I3»  DHYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

He  lays  on  load  with  either  hand,  amain. 

And  headlong  drives  the  Trojan  o'er  the  plain,       6io 

Kor  flops,  nor  ftays;  nor  reft  nor  breath  allows. 

But  ftorms  of  ftrokes  defcend  about  his  brows; 

A  rattling  tempeft,  and  a  hail  of  blows. 

But  now  the  prince,  who  faw  the  wild  increafe 

Of  wounds,  commands  the  combatants  to  ceafe:  6i^ 

And  bounds  Entellus*  wrath,  and  bids  the  peace. 

Fixft  to  the  Trojan,  fpent  with  toil,  he  came. 

And  footh'd  his  forrow  for  the  fufFer'd  fhame. 

What  fury  feiz'd  my  friend  ?  the  gods,  faid  he. 

To  him  propitious,  and  averfe  to  thee. 

Have  giv'n  his  arm  fuperior  force  to  thine;  620 

'Tis  madnefs  to  contend  with  flrength  divine. 

The  gauntlet  nght  thus  ended,  from  the  fhore 

His  faithful  friends  unhappy  Dares  bore : 

His  mouth  and  noftrils  pour'd  a  purple  flood;         62^ 

And  pounded  teeth  came  rufhing  with  his  blood. 

Faintly  he  ftagger'd  through  the  hilTmg  throng; 

And  hung  his  head,  and  trail'd  his  legs  along. 

The  fword  and  cafque  are  carr)'*d  by  his  train; 

But  with  his  foe  the  palm  and  ox  remain.  630 

The  champion,  then,  before  -tineas  came; 
Proud  of  his  prize,  but  prouder  of  his  fame ; 
O  goddefs-bom!  and  you  Dardanian  hoft, 
Mark  with  attention,  and  forgive  my  boaft : 
Learn  what  I  was,  by  what  remains;  and  know      6^^ 
From  what  impending  fate,  you  fav'd  my  foe. 

Sternly 


iENEIS.      BOOK    V.  133 


,.  } 


Sternly  he  fpoke;  and  then  confronts  the  bull; 
And,  on  his  ample  forehead,  aiming  full. 
The  deadly  ftroke  defcending,  pierc'd  the  ikull. 
Down  drops  the  beaft ;  nor  needs  the  fecond  wound ; 
But  fprawls  in  pangs  of  death,   and  fpurns  the  ground. 
Then  thus.     In  Dares'  flead  I  offer  this; 
Eryx,  accept  a  nobler  facrifice : 
Take  the  laft  gift  my  wither'd  arms  can  yield ; 
Thy  gauntlets  I  refign,  and  here  renounce  the  field* 

This  done,  JEn^zs,  orders,  for  the  clofe. 
The  ftrife  of  archers  with  contending  bows. 
The  maft,  Sergefihus'  Ihatter'd  galley  bore. 
With  his  own  hands  he  raifes  on  the  fhore : 
A  fluttering  dove  upon  the  top  they  tie,  6^0 

The  living  mark  at  which  their  arrows  fly. 
The  rival  archers  in  a  line  advance; 
Their  turn  of  (hooting  to  recel\  e  from  chance. 
A  helmet  holds  their  names.     The  lots  are  drawn; 
On  the  firft  fcroll  was  read  Flippocoon :  6y^ 

The  people  fliout;  upon  the  next  was  found 
Young  Mneftheus,  late  with  naval  honours  crown 'd: 
The  third  contain'd  Earytia".'s  noble  name. 
Thy  brother,  Pandarus,  and  next  in  fame  i 
Whom  Pallas  urg'd  the  treaty  to  confound,  660 

And  fend  amona:  the  Greeks  a  feather 'd  wound, 
Aceftes  in  the  bottom  laft  remain'd ; 
Whom  not  his  age  from  youthful  fports  reftrain'd. 
Soon  all  with  vigour  bend  their  trufty  bows. 
And,  from  the  quiver,  each  his  arrow  chofe:         66^ 

K  5  Hippocoon's 


134  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL, 

Hippocoon's  was  the  firft :  with  forceful  fvvay 

It  flew,  and,  whizzing,  cut  the  liquid  way, 

Fix'd  in  the  maft  the  feather'd  weapon  ftands; 

The  fearful  pigeon  flutters  in  her  bands; 

'And  the  tree  trembled ;  and  the  fhouting  cries        670 

Of  the  pleased  people  rend  the  vaulted  fkies. 

Then  Mneftheus  to  the  head  his  arrow  drove,  1 

With  lifted  eyes,  and  took  his  aim  above  j  I 

But  made  a  glancing  fliot,  and  mifs'd  the  dove.        J 

Yet  mifs'd  fo  narrow,  that  he  cut  the  cord  67c 

"VMiich  faften'd,  by  the  foot,  the  flitting  bird. 

The  captive  thus  releas'd,,  away  fhe  flies. 

And  beats,  with  clapping  wings,  the  yielding  Ikies. 

'His  bow  already  bent,  Eurytian  fl:ood. 

And,  having  firfl:  invok'd  his  brother  god,  680 

His  winged  fhaft  with  eager  hafl:e  he  fped; 

The  fatal  mefl^age  reach 'd  her  as  flie  fled : 

She  leaves  her  life  aloft:  Ihe  flrikes  the  ground. 

And  renders  back  the  weapon  in  the  wound, 

Acefl:es,  grudging  at  his  lot,  remains  68^ 

Without  a  prize  to  gratify  his  pains. 

Yet  fhooting  upward,  fends  his  fliaft,  to  fhow 

An  archer's  art,  and  boaft  his  twanging  bow. 

The  feather 'd  arrow  gave  a  dire  portent: 

And  latter  augurs  judge  from  this  event.  690 

Chaf'd  by  the  fpeed,  it  fir'd;  and,  as  it  flew, 

A  trail  of  following  flames  afcending  drew: 

Kindling  they  mount,  and  mark  the  fhiny  way 

Acrofs  the  Ikies,  as  falling  meteors  play. 

And  vanilh  into  wind,  or  in  a  blaze  decay. 


iENEIS.     BOOK    V.  1J5 

TRe  Trojans  and  Sicilians  wildly  flare; 
And,  trembling,  turn  their  wonder  into  prayer. 
The  Dardan  prince  put  on  a  fmiling  face. 
And  ftrain'd  Aceftes  with  a  clofe  embrace: 
Then,  honouring  hira  with  gifts  above  the  reft,     700 
Turn'd  the  bad  omen,  nor  his  fears  confefs'd. 
The  gods,  faid  he,  this  miracle  have  wrought; 
And  order'd  you  the  prize  without  the  lot. 
Accept  this  goblet  rough  vvdth  figur'd  gold. 
Which  Thracian  CifTeus  gave  my  fire  of  old  t         705" 
This  pledge  of  ancient  amity  receive. 
Which  to  my  fecond  fire  I  joftly  give. 
He  faid,  and,  with  the  trumpet's  chearful  found, 
Proclaim'd  him  viftor,  and  with  laurel  crown'd. 
Nor  good  Eurytian  envy'd  him  the  prize;  710 

Though  he  transfix'd  the  pigeon  in  the  Ikies, 
Who  cut  the  line,  with  fecond  gifts  was  grac'd; 
The  third  was  his,  whofe  arrow  pierc'd  the  maft. 
The  chief,  before  the  games  were  wholly  done, 
Call'd  Periphantes,  tutor  to  his  fon;  71  r 

And  whifper'd  thus :  With  fpeed  Afcanlus  find. 
And  if  his  childifh  troop  be  ready  join'd, 
On  horfe-back  let  him  grace  his  grandfire's  day; 
And  lead  his  equals  arm'd  in  jufl  array. 
He  faid,  and,  calling  out,  the  cirque  he  clears:      720 
The  crowd  withdrawn,  an  open  plain  appears. 
And  now  the  noble  youths,  of  form  divine. 
Advance  before  their  fathers  in  a  line : 
The  riders  grace  the  fteeds;  the  fteeds  with  glorjv 
(hine. 

K  4  Thu« 


336  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Thus  marching  on,  in  military  pride,  ^r^- 

Shouts  of  applaufe  refound  from  fide  to  fide. 
Their  cafques,  adorn'd  with  laurel  wreaths,  they  wear^^ 
Each  brandifhing  aloft  a  cornel  fpear. 
Some  at  their  backs  their  gilded  quivers  bore; 
Their  chains  of  burnifli'd  gold  hung  down  before:  730 
Three  graceful  troops  they  form'd  upon  the  green; 
Three  graceful  leaders  at  their  head  w^ere  feen ; 
Twelve  follow 'd  every  chief,  and  left  a  fpace  be- 
tween* 
The  firft  young  Priam  led ;  a  lovely  boy, 
Whofe  grandf.re  was  th'  unhappy  king  of  Troy;    715 
His  race,  in  after- time,  was  known  to  fame,. 
New  honours  adding  to  the  Latian  name; 
And  well  the  royal  boy  his  Thracian  fteed  became 
White  were  the  fetlocks  of  his  feet  before. 
And  on  his  front  a  fnowy  ftar  he  bore :  740 

Then  beauteous  Atis,  with  liilus  bred. 
Of  equal  age,  the  fecond  fquadron  led. 
The  laft  in  order,  but  the  fii-ft  in  place, 
Firft  in  the  lovely  features  of  his  face. 
Rode  fair  Afcanius  en  a  fiery  ileed,  74J 

Queen  Dido's  gift,  and  of  the  Tyrian  breed. 
Sure  courfers  for  the  reft  the  king  ordains. 
With  golden  bits  adorn'd,  and  purple  reins. 

The  pleas'd  fpedators  peals  of  fhouts  renew. 
And  all  the  parents  in  the  children  view :  750 

Their  make,  their  motions,  and  their  fprightly  grace : 
And  hopes  and  fears  alternate  in  their  face, 

Th'un« 


} 


iENEIS.     BOOK    V.  137^ 

Th'  unfledg'd  commanders,  and  their  martial  train, 
Firft  make  the  circuity  of  the  fandy  plain. 
Around  their  fires:  and,  at  th'  appointed  fign,       'j^-^ 
Drawn  up  in  beauteous  order,  form  a  line. 
The  fecond  fignal  founds :  the  troop  divides 
In  three  'diflinguifh'd  parts,  with  three  difiinguifh'd 

guides. 
Again  they  clofe,  and  once  again  disjoin. 
In  troop  to  troop  oppos'd,  and  line  to  line.  760 

They  meet,  they  wheel,  they  throw  their  darts  afar 
With  harmlefs  rage,  and  well-diflembled  war. 
Then  in  a  round  the  mingled  bodies  run; 
Flying  they  follow,  and  purfuing  (hun. 
Broken  they  break,  and  rallying,  they  renew  '^6^ 

In  other  forms  the  military  fhew. 
At  laft,  in  order,  undifcern'd  they  join  j 
And  march  together,  in  a  friendly  line. 
And,  as  the  Cretan  labyrinth  of  old. 
With  wandering  ways,  and  many  a  winding  fold,  770 
Involv'd  the  weary  feet,  without  redrefs. 
In  a  round  error,  which  deny'd  recefs; 
So  fought  the  Trojan  boys  in  warlike  play,. 
Turn'd,  and  return'd,  and  ftill  a  different  way. 
Thus  dolphins,  in  the  deep,  each  other  chace,       775^ 
In  circles,  when  they  fwim  around  the  watery  race. 
This  game,  thefe  caroufals,  Afcanius  taught; 
And,  building  Alba,  to  the  Latins  brought. 
Shew'd  what  he  learn'd :  the  Latin  fires  impart. 
To  their  fucceeding  fons,  the  graceful  art;  780 

Frora 


jjS  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

From  thefe  imperial  Rome  receiv'd  the  game; 

Which  Troy,  the  youths  the  Trojan  troop,  they  name. 

Thus  far  the  facred  fports  they  celebrate : 

But  Fortune  foon  refum'd  her  ancient  hate: 

For  while  they  pay  the  dead  his  annual  dues^         785, 

Thofe  envy'd  rites  Safurnian  Juno  views; 

And  fends  the  goddefs  of  the  various  bow. 

To  try  new  methods  of  re\enge  below; 

Supplies  the  winds  to  wing  her  airy  way; 

Where  in  the  port  fecure  the  navy  lay.  790 

Swiftly  fair  Iris  down  her  arch  defcends ; 

And,  undifcern'd,  her  fatal  voyage  ends. 

She  faw  the  gathering  crowd;  and  gliding  thence. 

The  defert  fhore,  and  fleet  without  defence. 

The  Trojan  matrons  on  the  fands  alone,  79,^ 

With  fighs  and  tears,  Anchifes'  death  bemoan. 

Then,  turning  to  the  fea  their  weeping  eyes. 

Their  pity  to  themfelves,  renews  their  cries. 

Alas!  faid  one,  what  oceans  yet  remain 

For  us  to  fail;  what  labours  to  fuftain!  800 

All  take  the  word;  and,  with  a  general  groan. 

Implore  the  gods  for  peace;  and  places  of  their  own. 

The  goddefs,  great  in  mifchief,  views  their  pains ; 

And,  in  a  woman's  form,  her  heavenly  limbs  reftrains. 

In  face  and  fhape,  old  Beroe  fhe  became,  £05  ^ 

Doriclus'  wife,  a  venerable  dame;  I 

Once  blefs'd  with  riches,  and  a  mother's  name.         J 

Thus  chang'd,  amidft  the  crying  crowd  (he  ran, 

Mix'd  with  the  matrons,  and  thefe  words  began : 

O  wretched 


JENErS.      BOOK    V.  13^, 

O  wretched  we,  whom  not  the  Grecian  power,      8 1  o 
Nor  flames  deftroy'd,  in  Troy's  unhappy  hour! 
O  wretched  we,  referv'd  by  cruel  fate. 
Beyond  the  ruins  of  the  finking  ftate ! 
Now  fe\  en  revolving  years  are  wholly  run. 
Since  this  improfperous  voyage  we  begun:  8r^ 

Since  tofs'd  from  fhores  to  fhores,  from  lands  to  lands,, 
Inhofpi table  rocks  and  barren  fands ; 
Wandering  in  exile,  through  the  flormy  Tea, 
We  fearch  in  vain  for  flying  Italy. 
Now  call  by  fortune  on  this  kindred  land,  8201 

What  fhould  our  reft,  and  rifing  walls  withftand ;       V 
Or  hinder  here  to  fix  our  banifn'd  band?  J 

O,  country  lod!  and  gods  redeem 'd  in  vain, 
if  ilill  in  endlefs  exile  we  remain ! 
-Shall  we  no  more  the  Trojan  walls  rene^v,  825; 

Or  ftreams  of  fome  diffembled  Simois  view  ? 
Hafte,  join  with  me,  th'  unhappy  fleet  confume;. 
GalTandra  bids,  and  I  declare  her  doom. 
In  lleep  I  faw  her;  fhe  fupply'd  ray  hands 
(For  this  I  more  than  dreamt)  with  flaming  brands  i 
With  thefe,  faid  fne,  thefe  wandering  fhips  defl:roy;-| 
Thefe  are  your  fatal  feats,  and  this  your  Troy,  j> 

Time  calls  you  now,  the  precious  hour  employ.       J 
Slack  not  the  good  prefage,  while  heaven  infpires 
Out  minds  to  dare,  and  gives  the  ready  fires.         85^ 
See  Neptune's  altars  minider  their  brands; 
The  god  is  pleas'd;  the  god  fapplies  our  hands* 
Then,  from  the  pile,  a  flaming  fir  fhe  drew. 
And,  tofs'd  in  air,  ainidft  the  gallies  threw, 

WrappU 


no  BRYDEN'S    VIRGrlL. 

Wrap'd  in  amaze,  the  matrons  wildly  flare:  S^& 

Then  Pyrgo,  reverenc'd  for  her  hoary  hair, 

Pyrgo,  the  nurfe  of  Priam's  numerous  race. 

No  Beroe  this,  though  flie  belies  her  face: 

What  terrors  from  her  frowning  front  arife; 

Behold  a  goddefs  in  her  ardent  eyes !  843; 

What  rays  around  her  heavenly  face  are  feen, 

Mark  her  majeftic  voice,  and  more  than  mortal  mien  I 

Beroe  but  now  I  left ;  whom,  pin'd  with  pain. 

Her  age  and  anguifh  from  thefe  rites  detain. 

She  faid;  the  matrons,  feiz'd  with  new  amaze,       850 

Roll  their  malignant  eyes,  and  on  the  navy  gaze : 

They  fear,  and  hope,  and  neither  part  obey : 

They  hope  the  fated  land>  but  fear  the  fatal  way. 

The  goddefs,  having  done  her  talk  below. 

Mounts  up  on  equal  wings,  and  bends  her  painted  bow* 

Struck  with  the  fight,  and  feiz'd  with  rage  divine. 

The  matrons  profecute  their  mad  defign : 

They  fhriek  aloud,  they  fnatch,  with  impious  hands^ 

The  food  of  altars,  firs,  and  flaming  brands. 

Green  boughs,  and  faplings,  mingled  in  their  haue; 

And  fmoking  torches  on  the  fhips  they  caft. 

The  flame,  unflopp'd  at  firft,  more  fury  gains ; 

And  Vulcan  rides  at  large  with  loofen'd  reins : 

Triumphant  to  the  painted  flerns  he  foars. 

And  feizes  in  his  way  the  banks  and  crackling  oars, 

Eumelus  was  the  firft  the  news  to  bear. 

While  yet  they  crowd  the  rural  theatre. 

Then  what  they  hear,  is  witnefs'd  by  their  eyes : 

A  florm  of  fparkles  and  of  flames  arife. 

Afcaniufr 


} 


J^NEIS.      BOOK    V.  f4f 

Afcanius  took  th'  alarm,  while  yet  he  led  87© 

His  early  warriors  on  his  prancing  fteed. 

And  fpurring  on,  his  equals  foon  o'erpafs'd. 

Nor  could  his  frighted  friends  reclaim  his  haile. 

Soon  as  the  royal  youth  appear'd  in  view. 

He  fent  his  voice  before  him  as  he  fiew;  875; 

What  madnefs  moves  you,  matrons,  to  deftroy 

The  laft  remainders  of  unhappy  Troy  ? 

Not  hoftile  fleets,  but  your  own  hopes  you  bum. 

And  on  your  friends  your  fatal  fury  turn. 

Behold  your  own  Afcanius:  while  he  faid  880 

He  drew  his  glittering  helmet  from  his  head ; 

In  which  the  youths  to  fportful  arms  he  led. 

By  this,  iEneas  and  his  train  appear; 

And  now  tlie  women,  feiz'd  with  fhame  and  fear, 

Difpers'd,  to  woods  and  caverns  take  their  flight;  88^ 

Abhor  their  aftions,  and  avoid  the  li^ht : 

Their  friends  acknowledge,  and  their  error  find ; 

And  fhake  the  goddefs  from  their  alter'd  mind. 

Not  fo  the  raging  fires  their  fury  ceafe; 
But  lurking  in  the  feams,  with  feeming  peace,         890 
Work  on  their  way,  aniid  the  fmouldering  tow. 
Sure  in  deftrudlion,  but  in  motion  flow. 
The  filent  plague  through  the  green  timber  eats. 
And  vomits  out  a  tardy  flame  by  fits. 
Down  to  the  keels,  and  upward  to  the  fails,  895" 

Tlie  fire  defcends,  or  mounts;  but  ftill  prevails: 
Nor  buckets  pour'd,  nor  ftrength  of  human  hand. 
Can  the  viftoxious  element  withfland* 

The 


142,  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

The  pious  hero  rends  his  robe,  and  throws 

To  heaven  his  hands,  and  with  his  hands  his  vov.'s: 

O  Jove,  he  cry'd,  if  prayers  can  yet  have  place; 

If  thou  abhorr'il  not  all  the  Dardan  race; 

If  any  fpark  of  pity  ftill  remain;  "j 

If  gods  are  gods,  and  not  invok'd  in  vain;  > 

Yet  fpare  the  relics  of  the  Trojan  train.  9^5-* 

Yet  from  the  flames  our  burning  veiTels  free: 

Or  let  thy  fury  fall  alone  on  me. 

At  this  devoted  head  thy  thunder  throw. 

And  fend  the  willing  facrifice  below. 

Scarce  had  he  faid,  when  fouthern  florms  arife;  910 
'From  pole  to  pole  the  forky  lightning  fiies; 
Loud  rattling  Ihakes  the  mountains  and  the  plain; 
Heaven  bellies  downward,  and  defcends  in  rain; 
Whole  fheets  of  v/ater  from  the  clouds  are  fent, 
Which,  hifling  through  the  planks,  the  flames  prevent; 
And  ftop  the  fiery  peft :  four  fliips  alone 
Burn  to  the  wafte,  and  for  the  fleet  atone. 

But  doubtful  thoughts  the  hero's  heart  divide; 
If  he  fnould  fiill  in  Sicily  reflde. 
Forgetful  of  his  fates;  or  tempt  the  main,  920 

In  hope  the  promised  Italy  to  gain. 
Then  Nautes,  old  and  wife,  to  whom  alone 
The  will  of  heaven  by  Pallas  vras  fore-fliown ; 
Vers'd  in  portents,  experienced  and  infpir'd 
To  tell  events,  and  what  the  Fates  requir'd:  -925 

Thus  while  he  flood,  to  neither  part  inclined. 
With  chearful  words  relieved  his  labouring  mind ; 

Ogod- 


^NEIS.     BOOK    V.  143 

O  goddefs-born,   reiign'd  in  ever}*  ftate, 
"With  patience  bear,  with  prudence  pufh  your  fate. 
By  fuffering  well,  our  fortune  we  fubdue;  933 

Fly  when  (he  frowns,   and  when  (he  calls  purfue. 
Your  friend  Aceftes  is  of  Trojan  kind; 
To  him  difclofe  the  fecrets  of  your  mind: 
Trufl:  in  his  hands  your  old  and  ufelefs  train. 
Too  numerous  for  the  fhips  which  yet  remain ;       95  r 
The  feeble,  old,Mndu]gent  of  their  eafe. 
The  dames  who  dread  the  dangers  of  the  feas, 
Vv'ith  all  their  dallard  crew,  who  dare  not  fiand 
The  fhock  of  battle  with  your 'foes  by  land; 
Here  you  may  build  a  common  town  for  all;  9^® 

And,  from  Acefles'  name,  Acefta  call. 
The  reafons,  with  his  friend's  experience  join 'd, 
Erxcourag'd  much,  but  more  difturb'd  his  mind, 
"Twas  dead  of  night ;  when  to  his  Ilumbering  eyes. 
His  father's  (hade  defcended  from  the  Ikies ;  94^ 

And  thus  he  fpoke:  O  more  than  yital  breath, 
Lcv'd  while  1  liv'd,  and  dear  ev'n  after  death; 
O  fon,  in  various  toils  and  troubles  toll. 
The  king  of  heaven  employs  my  careful  gholl 
On  his  commands ;  the  God  who  fav'd  from  fire    9 jo 
Your  flaming  fleet,  and  heard  your  juft  delire; 
The  wholfome  counfel  of  your  friend  receive; 
And  here  the  coward  train,  and  women  leave : 
The  chofen  youth,  and  thofe  who  nobly  dare 
Tranfport,  to  tempt  the  dangers  of  the  war,  g^^ 

The  ftern  Italians  with  their  courage  try ; 
Rough  are  their  manners,  and  theii  minds  are  high. 
I  But 


] 


144-  DRYDEN^S     VIRGIL. 

But  firft  to  Pluto's  palace  you  fliould  go. 
And  feek  rny  fhade  among  the  bleft  below. 
For  not  with  impious  ghofts  my  foul  remains,     960 
Nor  fafFers,  with  the  damn'd,  perpetual  pains. 
But  breathes  the  living  air  of  foft  Elyfian  plains. 
The  chafte  Sibylla  fnall  your  fteps  convey; 
And  blood  of  offer *d  vidims  free  the  way; 
Tiiere  fhall  you  know  what  realms  the  gods  aflign; 
And  learn  the  fates  and  fortunes  of  your  line. 
But  now,  farewell ;  I  vanifh  with  the  night ; 
And  feel  the  blaft  of  heaven's  approaching  light : 
He  faid,  and  mix'd  with  Ihades,  and  took  his  airy 

flight. 

"Whither  fo  fafr,  the  filial  duty  cry'd,  970 

And  why,  ah  why,  the  wifh'd  embrace  deny'd! 
He  faid,  and  rofe:  as  holy  zeal  infpires. 
He  rakes  hot  embers,  and  renews  the  fires. 
His  country  gods  and  Vefta  then  adores 
"With  cakes  and  incenfe;   and  their  aid  implores,    97 j^ 
jSIext  for  his  friends  and  royal  hoft  he  fent, 
Reveal'd  his  vifion  and  the  gods  intent. 
With  his  own  purpofe.     All,  without  delay. 
The  will  of  Jove  and  his  defires  obey. 
They  lift  with  women  each  degenerate  name,  980 

Who  dares  not  hazard  life,  for  future  fame. 
Thefe  they  cafhier :  the  brave  remaining  few. 
Oars,  banks,  and  cables  half  confum'd  renew. 
The  prince  defigns  a  city  with  the  plough; 
The  lots  their  feveral  tenements  allow.  985: 

This 


} 


^NE  IS.     BOOK    V.  145 

This  part  is  nam'd  from  Ilium,  that  from  Troy; 

And  the  new  king  afcends  the  throne  with  joy. 

A  chofen  fenate  from  the  people  draws; 

Appoints  the  judges,  and  ordains  the  laws. 

Then  on  the  top  of  Eryx,  they  begin  990 

A  rifmg  temple  to  the  Paphian  queen : 

Anchifes,  laft,  is  honour'd  as  a  god; 

A  prieft  is  added,  annual  gifts  beftow'd; 

And  groves  are  planted  round  his  bleft  abode. 

Nine  days  they  pafs  in  feafts,  their  temples  crown'd; 

And  fumes  of  incenfe  in  the  fanes  abound. 

Then,  from  the  fouth  arofe  a  gentle  breeze,. 

That  curl'd  the  fmoothnefsof  the  glaify  feas: 

The  rifing  winds  a  ruffling  gale  afford. 

And  call  the  merry  mariners  aboard.  lOOO 

Now  loud  laments  along  the  fhores  refound. 
Of  parting  friends  in  clofe  embraces  bound. 
The  trembling  women,  the  degenerate  train. 
Who  fhunn'd  the  frightful  dangers  of  the  main, 
Ev'r  thofe  defire  to  fail,  and  take  their  fhare         looj 
Of  the  rough  paffage,  and  the  promis'd  war. 
Whom  good  iEneas  chears;  and  recommends 
To  their  new  mafter's  care,  his  fearful  friends. 
On  Eryx'  altars  three  fat  calves  he  lays; 
A  lamb  new  fallen  to  the  ftormy  feas;  lOio 

Then  flips  his  haufers,  and  his  anchors  weighs. 
High  on  the  deck  the  godlike  hero  ftands ; 
With  olive  crown'd;  a  charger  in  his  hands; 
Then  caft  the  reeking  entrails  in  the  brine. 
And  pour'd  the  facrifice  of  purple  wine,  1015 

Vol.  XXIII,  L  FreOi 


} 


i/^  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Frefh  gales  arife,  with  equal  ftrokes  they  vie. 

And  brufh  the  buxom  feas,  and  o'er  the  billows  fly. 

Meantime  the  mother  goddefs,  full  of  fears. 
To  Neptune  thus  addrefs'd,  with  tender  tears: 
The  pride  of  Jove's  imperious  queen,  the  rage,     1020 
The  malice  which  no  fufferings  can  afTuage, 
Compel  me  to  thefe  prayers :  fmce  neither  fate. 
Nor  time,  nor  pity,  can  remove  her  hate. 
Ev'n  Jove  is  thwarted  by  his  haughty  wife; 
Still  vanquiih'd,  yet  Ihe  flill  renews  the  ftrife.       loz^ 
As  if  'twere  little  to  confume  the  town 
Which  aw'd  the  world,  and  v/ore  th'  imperial  crown; 
She  profecutes  the  ghoft  of  Troy  with  pains; 
And  gnaws,  ev'n  to  the  bones,  the  laft  remains. 
Let  her  the  caufes  of  her  hatred  tell;  1030 

But  you  can  witnefs  its  effefts  too  well. 
You  faw  the  ftorms  (he  rais"d  on  Libyan  floods. 
That  mix'd  the  mounting  billows  with  the  clouds; 
When,  bribing  ^olus,  fhe  fhook  the  main; 
And  mov'd  rebellion  in  your  watery  reign.  103^; 

With  fury  Ihe  pofTefs'd  the  Dardan  dames 
To  burn  their  fleet  with  execrable  flames : 
And  forc'd  JEncds,  when  his  Ihips  were  loft. 
To  leave  his  followers  on  a  foreign  coaft : 
For  v/hat  remains,  your  godhead  I  implore;         1040 
And  truft  my  fon  to  your  protecting  power. 
If  neither  Jove's  nor  fate's  decree  withftand. 
Secure  his  paffage  to  the  Latian  land. 

Then  thus  the  mighty  ruler  of  the  main: 
W^hat  may  not  Venus  hope,  from  Neptune's  reign  ? 

5  My 


lin,    > 
v:   J 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    V.  147 

My  kingdom  claims  your  birth :  my  late  defence 

Of  your  indanger'd  fleet,  may  claim  your  confidence. 

Nor  lefs  by  land  than  fea,  my  deeds  declare. 

How  much  your  lov'd  ^neas  is  my  care. 

Thee,  Xanthus,  and  thee,  Simois,  I  atteft:  1050 

Your  Trojan  troops  when  proud  Achilles  prefs'd. 

And  drove  before  liim  headlong  on  the  plain. 

And  dalh'd  againft  their  walls  the  trembling  train 

When  floods  were  fill'd  with  bodies  of  the  flain 

When  crimfon  Xanthus,  doubtful  of  his  way,   1055 

Stood-up  on  ridges  to  behold  the  fea; 

New  heaps  came  tumbling  in,  and  chok'd  his  way 

When  your  JEnesLS  fought,  but  fought  with  odds. 

Of  force  unequal,  and  unequal  gods ; 

I  fpread  a  cloud  before  the  vidlor's  fight,  1 060 

Suftain'd  the  vanquifli'd,  and  fecur'd  his  flight. 

Ev'n  then  fecur'd  him,  when  I  fought  with  joy 

The  vow'd  deftruftion  of  ungrateful  Troy. 

My  will 's  the  fame :  fair  goddefs,  fear  no  more. 

Your  fleet  fliall  fafely  gain  the  Latian  Ihore:         1063 

Their  lives  are  given;  one  deftin'd  head  alone 

Shall  perilh,  and  for  multitudes  atone. 

Thus  having  arm'd  with  hopes  her  anxious  mind. 

His  finny  team  Saturnian  Neptune  join'd. 

Then  adds  the  foamy  bridle  to  their  jaws,  1070 

And  to  the  loofen'd  reins  permits  the  laws. 

High  on  the  waves  his  azure  car  he  guides; 

Its  axles  thunder,  and  the  fea  fubfides ; 

And  the  fmooth  ocean  rolls  her  filent  tides, 

L  2  The 


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I.     J 


148  DHYDEN'S    VIRGIL* 

The  tempefts  fly  before  their  father's  face;  107^ 

Trains  of  inferior  gods  his  triumph  grace; 

And  monfter  whales  before  their  mafter  play. 

And  choirs  of  tiitons  crowd  the  watery  way. 

The  martial'd  powers  in  equal  troops  divide 

To  right  and  left:  the  gods  his  better  fide        108 

Inclofe,  and  on  the  worfe  the  nymphs  and  nereids  ride 

Now  fmiling  hope,  with  fweet  viciffitude. 
Within  the  hero's  mind,  his  joys  renew'd. 
He  calls  to  raife  the  mafts,  the  Iheets  difplay; 
The  chearful  crew  with  diligence  obey;  1085 

They  feud  before  the  wind,  and  fail  in  open  fea 
A-head  of  all  the  mailer  pilot  fleers. 
And,  as  he  leads,  the  following  navy  veers. 
The  ileeds  of  night  had  travel'd  half  the  fky. 
The  drowfy  rowers  on  their  benches  lie;  1090 

When  the  foft  god  of  Deep,  with  eafy  flight, 
Defcends,  and  draws  behind  a  trail  of  light» 
Thou,  Palinurus,  art  his  dellin'd  prey; 
To  thee  alone  he  takes  his  fatal  way. 
Dire  dreams  to  thee,  and  iron  fleep  he  tears;       1095 
And,  lighting  on  thy  prow,  the  form  of  Phorbas  wears. 
Then  thus  the  traitor  god  began  his  tale: 
The  winds,  my  friend,  infpire  a  pleafing  gale; 
The  Ihips,  without  thy  care,  fecurely  fail. 
Isow  ileal  an  hour  of  fweet  repofe ;  and  I  1 1 00 

Will  take  the  rudder,  and  thy  room  fupply. 
To  whom  the  yawning  pilot,  half  aileep ; 
Me  doil  thou  bid  to  trail  the  treacherous  deep ! 

The 


} 


j^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    V.  149 

The  harlot-fmiles  of  her  diffembling  face. 

And  to  her  faith  commit  the  Trojan  race?  1105 

Shall  I  believe  the  fyren  fouth  again. 

And,  oft  betray 'd,  not  know  the  monfter  main? 

He  faid ,  his  faften'd  hands  the  rudder  keep. 

And,  fix'd  on  heaven,  his  eyes  repel  invading  fleep. 

The  god  was  wroth,  and  at  his  temples  threw       mo 

A  branch  in  Lethe  dipp'd,  and  drunk  with  Stygian  dew : 

The  pilot,  vanquifh'd  by  the  power  divine. 

Soon  clos'd  his  fwimming  eyes,  and  lay  fupine. 

Scarce  were  his  limbs  extended  at  their  length. 

The  god,  infulting  with  fuperior  ftrength,  1 1 15 

Fell  heavy  on  him,  plung'd  him  in  the  fea. 

And,  with  the  ftern,  the  rudder  tore  away. 

Headlong  he  fell,  and,  ftruggling  in  the  main, 

Cry'd  out  for  helping  hands,  but  cry'd  in  vain ; 

The  vidor  daemon  mounts  obfcure  in  air;  1 120 

While  the  ihip  fails  without  the  pilot's  care. 

On  Neptune's  faith  the  floating  fleet  relies : 

But  what  the  man  forfook,  the  god  fupplies; 

And  o'er  the  dangerous  deep  fecure  the  navy  flies ; 

Glides  by  the  fyren's  cliffs,  a  flielfy  coaft,  ii2j^ 

Long  infamous  for  fhips  and  failors  loft; 

And  white  with  bones :  th'  impetuous  ocean  roars; 

And  rocks  rebellow  from  the  founding  (hores. 

The  watchful  hero  felt  the  knocks;  and  found 

The  tolfmg  veflel  fail'd  on  flioaly  ground.  1 130 

Sure  of  his  pilot's  lofs,  he  takes  himfelf 

The  helm,  and  Ileers  aloof,  and  Ihuns  the  Ihelf. 

L  3  Inly 


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150  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Inly  he  griev'd,  and,  groaning  from  the  breaft, 
Deplor'd  his  death;  and  thus  his  pain  exprefs'd: 
For  faith  repos'd  on  feas,  and  on  the  flattering  iky,  113^ 
Thy  naked  corpfe  is  doom'd  on  fhoies  unknown  to  lie» 


THE 


[   i>i    3 

THE 
SIXTH        BOOK 

OF      THE 

jE  N  E  I  S. 

THE    ARGUMENT. 

The  Sibyl  foretels  JEneas  the  adventures  he  fhould  meet 
with  in  Italy:  Ihe  attends  him  to  hell:  defcribing 
to  him  the  various  fcenes  of  that  place,  and  conduc- 
ing him  to  his  father  Anchifes :  who  inftrufts  him 
in  thofe  fublime  myfteries  of  the  foul  of  the  world, 
and  the  tranfmigration :  and  fhews  him  that  glori- 
ous race  of  heroes  which  was  to  defcend  from  him 
and  his  pofterity. 

TJE  faid,  and  wept:  then  fpread  his  fails  before   ^ 
■*•  "^  The  winds,  and  reach'd  at  length  the  Cuman 

fhore : 
Their  anchors  dropt,  his  crew  the  veflels  moor. 
They  turn  their  heads  to  fea,  their  fterns  to  land; 
And  greet,  v/ith  greedy  jo)-,  th"  Italian  ftrand.  ^ 

Some  ftrike  from  clafhing  flints  their  fiery  feed; 
Some  gather  flicks  the  kindled  flames  to  feed ; 
Or  fearch  for  hollow  trees,  and  fell  the  woods. 
Or  trace  through  vallies  the  difcover'd  floods, 

L  4  Thus, 


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35*  DRYDEN'S    VXRGIL. 

Thus,  while  their  feveral  charges  they  fulfil,  lO 

The  pious  prince  afcends  the  facred  hill 

Where  Phoebus  is  ador'd ;  and  feeks  the  (hade 

Which  hides  from  fight  his  venerable  maid. 

Deep  in  a  cave  the  Sibyl  makes  abode ; 

Thence  full  of  fate  returns,  and  of  the  god.  1 5 

Through  Trivia's  grove  they  walk;  and  now  behold. 

And  enter  now  the  temple  roof 'd  with  gold. 

When  Dasdalus,  to  fly  the  Cretan  fhore. 

His  heavy  limbs  on  jointed  pinions  bore 

(The  firft  who  fail'd  in  air),  'tis  fung  by  fame,     20 

To  the  Cumaean  coaft  at  length  he  came; 

And  here  alighting,  built  this  collly  frame, 

Infcrib'd  to  Phoebus,  here  he  hung  on  high 

The  fteerage  of  his  v/ings,  that  cuts  the  fkyj 

Then  o'er  the  lofty  gate  his  art  embofs'd  2-| 

Androgeos'  death,  and  offerings  to  his  ghoft : 

Seven  youths  from  Athens  yearly  fent,  to  meet 

The  fate  appointed  by  revengeful  Crete. 

And  next  to  thofe  the  dreadful  urn  was  plac'd. 

In  which  the  ddlin*d  names  by  lots  were  call:  30 

The  mournful  parents  ftand  around  in  tears; 

And  rifmg  Crete  againft  their  fhore  appears. 

There  too,  in  living  fculpture,  might  be  {ten 

The  mad  aifeclion  of  the  Cretan  queen : 

Then  how  fhe  cheats  her  bellowing  lover's  eye:        3^; 

The  rutfhing  leap,  the  doubtful  progeny. 

The  lower  part  a  beafl,  a  man  above. 

The  monument  of  their  polluted  love» 

Nor 


^NEIS.     BOOK    VI.  753 

Kor  far  from  thence  he  grav'd  the  wondrous  maze; 

A  thoufand  doors,  a  thoufand  winding  ways;  4,0 

Here  dwells  the  monfter,  hid  from  human  view, 

Kot  to  be  found  but  by  the  faithful  clue : 

Till  the  kind  artift,  mov'd  with  pious  grief. 

Lent  to  the  loving  maid  this  laft  relief; 

And  all  thofe  erring  paths  defcrib'd  fo  well,  45 

That  Thefeus  conquered,  and  the  monfter  fell. 

Here  haplefs  Icarus  had  found  his  part ; 

Had  not  the  father's  grief  reftrain'd  his  art. 

He  twice  eflay'd  to  caft  his  fon  in  gold; 

Twice  from  his  hands  he  drop'd  the  forming  mould.  5"© 

All  this  with  wondering  eyes  iEneas  view'd: 
Each  varj'ing  objeft  his  delight  renew'd. 
Eager  to  read  the  reft.  Achates  came,  -\ 

And  by  his  fide  the  mad  divining  dame  5  ^ 

The  prieftefs  of  the  god,  Deiphobe  her  name,      55  J 
Time  fuffers  not,  ihe  faid,  to  feed  your  eyes 
With  empty  pleafures :  hafte  the  facrifice. 
Seven  bullocks  yet  unyok'd,  for  Phoebus  choofe. 
And  for  Diana  feven  unfpotted  ewes. 
This  faid,  the  fervants  urge  the  facred  rites;  60 

While  to  the  temple  fhe  the  prince  invites. 
A  fpacious  cave,  within  its  farmoft  part. 
Was  hew'd  and  falhion'd  by  laborious  art 
Through  the  hill's  hollow  fides ;  before  the  place, 
A  hundred  doors,  a  hundred  entries  grace:  65 

As  many  voices  iffue;  and  the  found 
Of  Sibyls'  words  as  many  times  rebound, 

Nov 


154  DR  YD  EN'S    VIRGIL. 

Now  to  the  mouth  they  come ;  Aloud  {he  cries. 

This  is  the  time ;  ejiquire  your  deftinies. 

He  comes,  behold  the  god!  Thus  while  fhe  faid      70 

(And  Ihivering  at  the  facred  entry  ftaid). 

Her  colour  chang'd,  her  face  was  not  the  fame. 

And  hollow  groans  from  her  deep  fpirit  came. 

Her  hair  flood  up;  convulfive  rage  poflefs'd 

Her  trembling  limbs,  and  heav'd  her  labouring  breafl. 

Greater  than  human-kind  fhe  feem'd  to  look : 

And,  with  an  accent  more  than  mortal,  fpoke. 

Her  flaring  eyes  with  fparkling  fury  roll; 

When  all  the  god  came  rufhing  on  her  foul. 

Swiftly  fhe  turn"d,  and  foaming  as  fhe  fpoke,  80 

Why  this  delay?  fhe  cried;  the  powers  invoke: 

Thy  prayers  alone  can  open  this  abode, 

Elfe  vain  are  my  demands,  and  dumb  the  god. 

She  faid  no  more:  the  trembling  Trojans  hear; 

O'erfpread  with  a  damp  fweat,  and  holy  fear.  8^ 

The  prince  himfelf,  with  awful  dread  pofTefs'd, 

His  vows  to  great  Apollo  thus  addrefs'd : 

Indulgent  god,  propitious  power  to  Troy, 

Swift  to  relieve,  unwilling  to  deftroy; 

DirecTted  by  whofe  hand,  the  Dardan  dart  90 

Pierc'd  the  proud  Grecian's  only  mortal  part : 

Thus  far,  by  fate's  decrees,  and  thy  commands. 

Through  ambient  feas,  and  through  devouring  fands. 

Our  exii'd  crew  has  fought  th'  Aufonian  ground; 

And  now,  at  length,  the  flying  coaft  is  found ;         95" 

Thus  far  the  fate  of  Troy,  from  place  to  place. 

With  fury  has  purfued  her  wandering  race  ; 

Here 


i^NEIS.     BOOK    VI.  155 

Here  ceafe,    ye    powers,    and    let    your   vengeance 

end; 
Troy  is  no  more,  and  can  no  more  ofFend, 
And  thou,  O  facred  maid!  infpir'd  to  fee  lOO 

Th'  event  of  things  in  dark  futurity. 
Give  me,  what  heaven  has  promis'd  to  my  fate. 
To  conquer  and  command  the  Latian  ftate : 
To  fix  my  wandering  gods,  and  find  a  place 
For  the  long  exiles  of  the  Trojan  race.  lor 

Then  fhall  my  grateful  hands  a  temple  rear 
To  the  twin  gods,  with  vows,  and  folemn  prayer; 
And  annual  rites,  and  feilivals,  and  games. 
Shall  be  performed  to  their  aufpicious  names ; 
Kor  (halt  thou  want  thy  honours  in  my  land,         no 
For  there  thy  faithful  oracles  fhall  ftand. 
Prefer v'd  in  fhrines :  and  every  facred  lay. 
Which,  by  thy  mouth,  Apollo  fhall  convey: 
All  fhall  be  treafur'd,  by  a  chofen  train 
Of  holy  priefls,  and  ever  fhall  remain,  115 

But,  Oh!  commit  not  thy  prophetic  mind 
To  flitting  leaves,  the  fport  of  every  wind, 
Lefl  they  difperfe  in  air  our  empty  fate  : 
Write  not,  but,  what  the  powers  ordain,  relate. 

Struggling  in  vain,  impatient  of  her  load,  120 

And  labouring  underneath  the  ponderous  god. 
The  more  fhe  flrove  to  fhake  him  from  her  breafl. 
With  more,  and  far  fuperior  force  he  prefs'd : 
Commands  his  entrance,  and,  without  control, 
Ufurps  her  organs,  and  infpires  her  foul.  1 2; 

Kow, 


iS^  ftRYDEN'S    VIRGII. 

Now,  with  a  furious  blaft,  the  hundred  doors  "j 

Ope  of  themfelves;  a  rufhing  whirlwind  roars  > 

Within  the  cave;  and  Sibyl's  voice  reftores :  J 

Efcap'd  the  dangers  of  the  watery  reign. 
Yet  more  and  greater  ills,  by  land  remain;  130 

The  coaft  fo  long  defir'd  (nor  doubt  th'  event) 
Thy  troops  fhall  reach,  but  having  reach'd,  repent. 
Wars,  horrid  wars  I  view;  a  field  of  blood; 
And  Tyber  rolling  with  a  purple  flood. 
Simois  nor  Xanthus  fhall  be  wanting  there;  135. 

A  new  Achilles  fhall  in  arms  appear : 
And  he,  too,  goddefs-born :  fierce  Juno's  hate. 
Added  to  hoftile  force,  fhall  urge  fhy  fate. 
To  what  flrange  nations  fhalt  not  thou  refort .' 
Driven  to  follicit  aid  at  every  court!  140 

The  caufe  the  fame  which  Ilium  once  opprefs'd, 
A  foreign  miflrefs  and  a  foreign  gueft : 
But  thou,  fecure  of  foul,  unbent  with  woes. 
The  more  thy  fortune  frowns,  the  more  oppofe : 
The  dawnings  of  thy  fafety  fhall  be  fhown,  14^ 

From  whence  thou  leafl  fhalt  hope,  a  Grecian  town. 
Thus,  from  the  dark  recefs,  the  Sibyl  fpoke,        -| 
And  the  refifling  air  the  thunder  broke :  [^ 

The  cave  rebellow'd,  and  the  temple  fhook.  J 

Th'  ambiguous  god,  who  rul'd  her  labouring  breafl,  ^ 
In  thefe  myflerious  words  his  mind  exprefl :  I 

Some  truths  reveal'd,  in  terms  involv'd  the  reft.       J 
At  length  her  fury  fell,  her  foaming  ceas'd. 
And,  ebbing  in  her  foul,  the  god  decreas'd, 

Then 


^NEIS.     BOOK    VI.  157 

Then  thus  the  chief:  No  terror  to  my  view,  15^ 

No  frightful  face  of  danger  can  be  new : 

Inur'd  to  fuffer,  and  refolv'd  to  dare. 

The  fates,  without  my  power,  Ihall  be  without  my  care. 

This  let  me  crave,  fmce  near  your  grove  the  road     "i 

To  hell  lies  open,  and  the  dark  abode,  160  > 

Which  Acheron  furrounds,  th'  innavigable  flood :      J 

Conduct  me  through  the  regions  void  of  light. 

And  lead  me  longing  to  my  father's  light : 

For  him,  a  thoufand  dangers  I  have  fought;  "j 

And,  rufhing  where  the  thickeft  Grecians  fought,       > 

Safe  on  my  back  the  facred  burden  brought. 

He,  for  my  fake,  the  raging  ocean  try'd. 

And  wrath  of  heaven ;   my  ftill  aufpicious  guide. 

And  bore  beyond  the  ftrength  decrepit  age  fupply'c 

Oft  fince  he  breath 'd  his  laft,  in  dead  of  night,      170 

His  reverend  image  flood  before  my  fight  j 

Enjoin'd  to  feek  below  his  holy  fhade; 

Conduced  there  by  your  unerring  aid: 

But  you,  if  pious  minds  by  prayers  are  won. 

Oblige  the  father,  and  proteft  the  fon.  i^jj 

Yours  is  the  power;  nor  Proferpine  in  vain 

Has  made  you  prieftefs  of  her  nightly  reign. 

If  Orpheus,  arm'd  with  his  enchanting  lyre. 

The  ruthlefs  king  with  pity  could  infpire. 

And  from  the  fnades  below  redeem  his  wife;  180 

Jf  Pollux,  offering  his  alternate  life. 

Could  free  his  brother;  and  can  daily  go 

By  turns  aloft,  by  turns  defcend  below; 

Why 


lide,       I 
ipply'd.  J 


IS^  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Why  name  I  Thefeus,  or  his  greater  friend. 

Who  trod  the  downward  path,  and  upward  could  afcend ! 

Not  lefs  than  theirs,  from  Jove  my  lineage  came: 

My  mother  greater,  my  defcent  the  fame. 

So  pray'd  the  Trojan  prince;  and,  while  he  pray'd. 

His  hand  upon  the  holy  altar  laid. 

Then  thus  reply'd  the  prophetefs  divine :  1 90 

O  goddefs-born !   of  great  Anchifes'  line. 

The  gates  of  hell  are  open  night  and  day : 

Smooth  the  defcent,  and  eafy  is  the  way: 

But,  to  return,  and  view  the  chearful  ikies. 

In  this  the  tafk  and  mighty  labour  lies.  igjp 

To  few  great  Jupiter  imparts  this  grace. 

And  thofe  of  (hining  worth,  and  heavenly  race. 

Betwixt  thofe  regions,  and  our  upper  light. 

Deep  forefts  and  impenetrable  night 

Poffefs  the  middle  fpace.     Th*  infernal  bounds       200 

Cocytus,  with  his  fable  waves  furrounds: 

But,  if  fo  dire  a  love  your  foul  invades. 

As  twice  below  to  view  the  trembling  Ihades ; 

If  you  fo  hard  a  toil  will  undertake. 

As  twice  to  pafs  th'  innavigable  lake,  20^ 

Receive  my  counfel.     In  the  neighbouring  grove 

There  ftands  a  tree:  the  queen  of  Stygian  Jove 

Claims  it  her  own ;  thick  woods  and  gloomy  night 

Conceal  the  happy  plant  from  human  fight. 

One  bough  it  bears;  but,  wondrous  to  behold,       21O 

The  duftile  rind,  and  leaves,  of  radiant  gold: 

This  from  the  vulgar  branches  mull  be  torn. 

And  to  fair  Proferpine  the  prefent  borne. 

Ere 


iENEIS.     BOOK    VI.  159 

Ere  leave  be  given  to  tempt  the  nether  ikies :  "i 

The  firft  thus  rent,  a  fecond  will  arife,  215  > 

And  the  fame  metal  the  fame  room  fupplies,  J 

Look  round  the  wood,  with  lifted  eyes  to  fee 

The  lurking  gold  upon  the  fatal  tree: 

Then  rend  it  off,  as  holy  rites  command; 

The  willing  metal  will  obey  thy  hand,  220 

Following  with  cafe,  if  favour'd  by  thy  fate. 

Thou  art  foredoom'd  to  view  the  Stygian  Itate : 

If  not,  no  labour  can  the  tree  conftrain. 

And  ftrength  of  (lubborn  arms,  and  Heel  are  vain. 

Befides,  you  know  not,  while  you  here  attend,       225 

Th'  unworthy  fate  of  your  unhappy  friend : 

Breathlefs  he  lies,  and  iiis  unbury'd  ghofi, 

Depriv'd  of  funeral  rites,  pollutes  your  hoft. 

Fay  firft  his  pious  dues:  and,  for  the  dead. 

Two  fable  Iheep  around  his  hearfe  be  led;  230 

Then,  living  turfs  upon  his  body  lay;  1 

This  done,  fecurely  take  the  deftin'd  way,  > 

To  find  the  regions  deftitute  of  day.  J 

She  faid :  and  held  her  peace.     ^Eneas  went  'j 

Sad  from  the  cave,  and  full  of  difcontent;         235  |» 

Unknowing  whom  the  facred  Sibyl  meant.  J 

Achates,  the  companion  of  his  breaft. 

Goes  grieving  by  his  fide  with  equal  cares  opprefs"d. 

Walking  they  talk'd,  and  fruitlefsly  divin'd 

"What  friend  the  prieftefs,  by  thofe  words,  defign'd ;  240 

But  foon  they  found  an  objed  to  deplore; 

Mifenus  lay  extended  on  the  foore. 

Son 


tCo  DRYDENVS    VIRGIL; 

Son  of  the  god  of  winds;  none  fo  renown'd. 

The  warrior  trumpet  in  the  field  to  found ; 

With  breathing  brafs  to  kindle  fierce  alarms,  2^^ 

And  rouze  to  dare  their  fate,  in  honourable  arms. 

He  ferv'd  great  Heftor;  and  was  ever  near. 

Not  with  his  trumpet  only,  but  his  fpear, 

BuU  by  Pelides'  arm  when  Hedor  fell. 

He  chofe  iEneas,  and  he  chofe  as  well.  250 

Swoln  with  applaufe,  and  aiming  ftill  at  more. 

He  now  provokes  the  fea-gods  from  the  fhore ; 

With  envy  Triton  heard  the  martial  found. 

And  the  bold  champion,  for  his  challenge,  drown 'd. 

Then  caft  his  mangled  carcafe  on  the  ftrand;  25  c 

The  gazing  crowd  around  the  body  ftand. 

All  weep,  but  moft  ^neas  mourns  his  fate. 

And  haftens  to  perform  the  funeral  ftate. 

In  altar- wife  a  {lately  pile  they  rear.; 

The  bafis  broad  below,  and  top  advanced  In  air,     2  60 

An  ancient  wood,  fit  for  the  work  defign'd 

(The  Ihady  covert  of  the  favage  kind) 

The  Trojans  found :  the  founding  ax  is  ply'd ; 

Firs,  pines,  and  pitch-trees,  and  the  towering  pride 

Of  foreft  aihes,  feel  the  fatal  ftroke,  265 

And  piercing  wedges  cleave  the  ftubborn  oak. 

Huge  trunks  of  trees,  fell'd  from  the  fteepy  crown 

Of  the  bare  mountains,  roll  with  ruin  down. 

Arm'd  like  the  reft  the  Trojan  prince  appears. 

And,  by  his  pious  labour,  urges  theirs.  270 

Thus  while  he  wrought,  revolving  in  his  mind 

Th.e  ways  to  corapafs  what  his  wiQi  defignM, 

He 


-^NEIS.     BOOK    Vr.  i6i 

He  call  his  eyes  upon  the  gloomy  grove. 
And  then,  with  vows,  implor'd  the  queen  of  love: 
O  may  thy  power,  propitious  ftill  to  me,  27 r 

Condui5l  my  fteps  to  find  the  fatal  tree. 
In  this  deep  foreft;  fmce  the  Sibyl's  breath 
Foretold,  alas.'  too  true,  Mifenus'  death. 
Scarce  had  he  faid,  when,  full  before  his  fight,    280  "1 
Two  doves,  defcending  from  their  airy  flight,  > 

Secure  upon  the  graffy  plain  alight,  J 

He  knew  his  mother's  birds;  and  thus  he  pray'd: 
Be  you  my  guides,  with  your  aufpicious  aid; 
And  lead  my  footfteps,  till  the  branch  be  found, 
Whofe  glittering  (hadow  gilds  the  facred  ground:  28^ 
And  thou,  great  parent !    with  celeftial  care. 
In  this  diflrefs,  be  prefent  to  my  prayer. 
Thus  having  faid,  he  ftopp'd  :  with  watchful  fight 
Obferving  ftill  the  motions  of  their  flight. 
What  courfe  they  took,  what  happy  flgns  ihey  Ihew;  ^ 
They  fed,  and,  fluttering  by  degrees,  withdrew  I 

Still  farther  from  the  place,  but  ftill  in  view :  J 

Hopping,  and  flying,  thus  they  led  him  on 
To  the  flow  lake :  whofe  baleful  ftench  to  fliun. 
They  wing'd  their  flight  aloft ;  then  ftooping  low, 
Perch'd  on  the  double  tree,  that  bears  the  golden  bough. 
Through  the  green  leaves  the  glittering  fhadows  glow; 
As  on  the  facred  oak,  the  wintery  mifleto : 
Where  the  proud  mother  views  her  precious  brood; 
And  happier  branches,  which  flie  never  fow'd.       300 
Such  was  the  glittering,  fuch  the  ruddy  rind. 
And  dancing  leaves,  that  wanton'd  in  the  wind. 
Vol.  XXIII.  U  He 


j5i  DPvYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

He  feiz'd  the  {hining  bough  with  griping  hold> 

And  rent  away,  with  eafe,  the  lingering  gold : 

Then  to  the  Sibyl's  palace  bore  the  prize.  3°51 

Mean  time,  the  Trojan  troops,  with  v/eeping  eyes,  > 

To  dead  Mifenus  pay  his  obfeqaies.  J 

Firil  from  the  ground  a  lofty  pile  they  rear. 

Of  pitch-trees,  oaks,  and  pines,  and  unduous  fir: 

The  fabric's  front,  with  cyprefs  twigs  they  ftrew,  31Q 

And  ftick  the  fides  with  bougiis  of  baleful  yeugb* 

The  topmoft  part,  his  glittering  arms  adorn ; 

Warm  waters,  then,  in  brazen  cauldrons  borne. 

Are  pour'd  to  wafh  his  body,  joint  by  joint: 

And  fragrant  oils  the  ftifFen'd  limbs  anoint.  31^ 

With  groans  and  cries  Mifenus  they  deplore : 

Then  on  a  bier,  with  puiple  cover'd  o'er. 

The  breatblefs  body,  thus  bewaii'd,  they  lay,  *] 

And  fire  the  pile,  their  faces  turn'd  away  > 

(Such  reverend  rites  their  fathers  us'd  to  pay).   3 20  J 

Pure  oil  and  incenfe  on  the  fire  they  throw. 

And  fat  of  viftims,  which. his  friends  beftow. 

Thefe  gifts,  the  greedy  flames  to  dull  devour; 

Then,  on  the  living  coals,  red  wine  they  pour: 

And  kft,  the  relicks  by  themfelves  difpofe,  j.2  j* 

Which  in  a  brazen  urn  the  priefts  inclofe. 

•Old  Chorineus  compafs"d  thrice  the  crew. 

And  dipp'd  an  olive  branch  in  holy  dew; 

WTxich  thrice  he  fprinkled  round,  and  thrice  aloud 

lavok'd  the  dead,  and  then  difmifs'd  the  crowd.     350 

But 


^  N  E  I  S.      B  O  O  K    Vr. 

But  good  iEneas  order 'd  on  the  Ihore 
A  ftately  tomb;  whofe  top  a  trumpet  bore^ 
A  foldier's  fauchion,  and  a  Teaman's  oar. 
Thus  was  his  friend  interred:  and  deathlefs  fame 
Still  to  the  lofty  cape  configns  his  name.  ^^^ 

Thefe  rites  performed,  the  prince,  without  delay, 
Kaftes  to  the  nether  world  his  deftin'd  way. 
Deep  was  the  cape;  and  downward  as  it  went 
From  the  wide  mouth,  a  rocky  rough  defcent; 
And  here  th'  accefs  a  gloomy  grove  defends;  5^3 

And  here  th'  unnavigable  lake  extends. 
O'er  whofe  unhappy  waters,  void  of  light. 
No  bird  prefumes  to  fteer  his  airy  fiight; 
Such  deadly  flenches  from  the  depth  arife. 
And  (learning  fulphur,  that  infeds  the  Ikies*  34- 

From  hence  the  Grecian  bards  their  legends  make, 
-And  give  the  name  Avernus  to  the  lake. 
Four  fable  bullocks,  in  the  yoke  untaught^ 
For  facrifice  the  pious  hero  brought; 
The  prieilefs  pours  the  wine  betwixt  their  horns;    350 
Then  cuts  the  curling  hair;  that  firft  oblation  burns. 
Invoking  Hecate  hither  to  repair 
(A  powerful  name  in  hell,  and  upper  air). 
The  facred  priefts  with  ready  knives  bereave 
The  beafts  of  life,  and  in  full  bowls  receive  ^^^ 

The  ftreaming  blood :  a  lamb  to  hell  and  night 
(The  fable  wool  without  a  ilreak  of  white] 
iEneas  offers:  and,  by  fare's  decree, 
A  barren  heifer,  Proferpine,  to  thee, 

M  2  With 


,§4.^  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

With  holocaufls  he  Pluto's  altar  fills:  36c 

Seven  brawny  bulls  with  his  own  hand  he  kills: 

Then,  on  the  broiling  entrails,  oil  he  pours; 

Which,  ointed  thus,  the  raging  flame  devoure : 

Late,  the  nodurnal  facrifice  begun; 

Nor  ended,  till  the  next  returning  fun.  2^5 

Then  earth  began  to  bellow,  trees  to  dance. 

And  howling  dogs  in  glimmering  light  advance. 

Ere  Hecate  came :  Far  hence  be  fouls  profane. 

The  Sibyl,  cry'd,  and  from  the  grove  abftain. 

Now,  Trojan,  take  the  way  thy  fates  afford,  370 

Aflume  thy  courage,   and  unflieath  thy  fword. 

She  faid,  and  pafs'd  along  the  gloomy  fpace. 

The  prince  purfu'd  her  fteps  with  equal  pace. 

Ye  realms,  yet  unreveal'd  to  human  fight. 
Ye  gods,  who  rule  the  regions  of  the  night,  375; 

Ye  gliding  ghofts,  permit  me  to  relate 
The  myftic  wonders  of  your  filent  Hate. 

Obfcure  they  went  through  dreary  Ihades,  that  led 
Along  the  wafte  dominions  of  the  dead : 
Thus  wander  travellers  in  woods  by  night,  380 

By  the  moon's  doubtful  and  malignant  light: 
When  Jove  iri  dulliy  clouds  involves  the  Ikies, 
And  the  faint  crefcent  Ihoots  by  fits  before  their  eyes. 

Juft  in  the  gate,  and  in  the  jaws  of  hell, 
■Revengeful  cares  and  fullen  forrows  dwellj  383; 

And  pale  difeafes,  and  repining  age; 
'Want,  fear,  and  famine's  unrefifted  rage : 
Here  toils,  and  death,  and  death's  half-brot"her,  fleep^ 
Fof ms  terrible  to  view,  .their  centry  keep : 

I  With 


VE  N  E  I  S.      BOOK    VI,  j6s 

With  anxious  pleafures  of  a  guilty  mind,  390 

Deep  frauds  before,  and  open  force  behind : 
The  furies  iron  beds,  and  ftrife  that  fhakes 
Her  hiffing  ti-elTes,  and  unfolds  her  fnak.es. 
Full  in  the  midft  of  this  infernal  road. 
An  elm  difplays  her  dulky  arms  abroad :  39^ 

The  god  of  fleep  there  hides  his  heavy  head. 
And  empty  dreams  on  every  leaf  are  fpread. 
Of  various  forms  unnuraber'd  fpectres  more; 
Gentaun,  and  double  Ihapes,  befiege  the  door; 
Before  the  paffage  horrid  Hydra  Hands,  40O 

And  Briareus  with  all  his  hundred  hands: 
Gorgons,  Geryon  with  his  triple  frame. 
And  vain  Chim^era  vomits  empty  fiame. 
The  chief  unfheath'd  his  Ihining  Heel,  prepar'd. 
Though  feiz'd  with  fudden  fear,  to  force  the  guard. 
Offering  his  brandifh'd  weapon  at  their  face. 
Had  not  the  Sibyl  ftopp'd  his  eager  pace. 
And  told  him  what  thofe  empty  phantoms  were ; 
Forms  without  bodies,  and  impaflive  air. 
Hence  to  deep  Acheron  they  take  their  way,  410 

Whofe  troubled  eddies,  thick  with  ooze  and  clay. 
Are  whirld  aloft,  and  in  Cocytus  loft: 
There  Charon  ftands,  who  rules  the  dreary  coaft; 
A  fordid  god :  down  from  his  hoary  chin 
A  length  of  beard  defcends;  uncomb'd,  unclean:    415 
His  eyes,  like  hollow  furnaces  on  fire: 
A  girdle,  foul  with  greafe,  binds  his  obfcene  attire. 
He  fpreads  his  canvas,  with  his  pole  he  fleers ; 
The  freights  of  flitting  ghofts  in  his  thin  bottom  bears. 

M  3  He 


%6&  BRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

He  look'd  In  years;  yet  in  his  years  were  feen        420 
A  youthful  vigour,  and  autumnal  green. 
An  airy  crowd  came  rufliing  where  he  ftood. 
Which  iiird  the  margin  of  the  fatal  flood, 
Hufbands  and  wives,  boys  and  unmarry'd  maids, 
And  mighty  heroes  mere  majeftic  fhades,  425 

And  youths,  intomb'd  before  their  fathers*  eyes. 
With  hollov/  groans,  and  flirieks,  and  feeble  cries. 
Thick  as  the  leaves  in  autumn  ftrow  the  woods : 
Or  fowls,  by  winter  forc'd,  forfake  the  floods. 
And  wing  their  hafty  flight  to  happier  lands :      430' 
Such,  and  fo  thick,  the  fhivering  army  fiands; 
And  prefs  for  paiTage  with  extended  hands. 

Now  thefe,  now  thofe,  the  furly  boatman  bore: 
The  reft  he  drove  to  diftance  from  the  Ihore. 
The  hero,  who  beheld,  with  wondering  eyes,         43  j^ 
The  tumult  miix'd  with  flirieks,  lam.ents,  and  cries, 
Alk'd  cf  his  ruide,  v.hat  the  rude  concourfe  meant? 
Why  to  the  fliore  the  thronging  people  bent? 
What  forms  of  law  among  the  ghofts  were  us'd? 
Why  fome  were  ferry*d  o'er,  and  feme  refus'd?      440 

Son  of  Anchifes,  offspring  of  the  gods. 
The  Sibyl  faid,  you  fee  the  Stygian  floods. 
The  frxred  fl:reams,  which  heaven's  imperial  flate 
Attefts  in  oaths,  and  fears  to  violate. 
The  ghofls  rejefced,  are  th'  unhappy  crew  445 

Deprived  of  fepulchres,  and  funeral  due. 
The  boatman  Charon ;  thofe,  the  bury'd  heft. 
He  ferries  over  to  the  farther  coaIl« 

Nov 


^NEIS.      BOOK    VI«r  zSf 

Nof  dares  his  tranfport  veflel  crofs  the  waves. 
With  fuch  whofe  bones  are  not  composed  in  graves* 
A  hundred  years  rhey  wander  on  the  fhore. 
At  length,  their  penance  done,  are  wafted  o'er. 
The  Trojan  chief  his  forward  pace  reprefs'd;. 
Revolving  anxious  thoughts  within  his  breaft,. 
He  faw  his  friends,  who,  whelni'd  beneath  the  waves. 
Their  funeral  honours  claim'd,  and  afk'd  their  cjuiet 

graves. 
The  loft  Leucafpis  in  the  crowd  he  knewj 
And  the  brave  leader  of  the  Lycian  crew : 
Whom,  on  the  Tyrrhene  feas  the  tempefts  met  j 
The  failors  mafter'd,  and  the  fnlp  o'erfet*  460 

Amidft  the  fpirits  Palinurus  prefs'd; 
Yet  frefh  from  life;  a  new  admitted  gueft. 
Who,  while  he  fteering,  view'd  the  ftars,  and  bore 
His  courfe  from  Africk,  to  the  Latian  fhore. 
Fell  headlong  down.     The  Trojan  fix'd  his  view,  465 
And  fcarcely  through  the  gloom  the  fullen  fhadow  knew. 
Then  thus  the  prince:  What  envious  power,  O  friend. 
Brought  your  lov'd  life  to  this  difailrous  end  I 
For  Phoebus,  ever  true  in  all  he  faid. 
Has,  in  your  fate  alone,  my  faith  betray'd.  4-0 

The  god  foretold,  you  fhould  not  die,  before 
You  reach'd,  fecure  from  feas,  the  Italian  ihore. 
Is  this  th*^  unerring  power?   The  ghoft  reply 'd. 
Nor  Phoebus  flatterd,  nor  his  anfwers  ly'd; 
Nor  envious  gods  have  fent  me  to  the  deep :       4^  -  ^ 
But  while  the  ftars,  and  courfe  of  heaven  I  keep,       l 
My  weary'd  eyes  were  feiz'd  with  fatal  lleep,  J 

M  4  I  fell; 


ii^  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

I  fell;  and,  with  my  weight,  the  helm  conftrain'd 
Was  drawn  along,  which  yet  my  gripe  retained. 
Now  by  the  winds,  and  raging  waves,  I  fwear,      480 
Tour  fafety,  more  than  mine,  was  then  my  care: 
Left,  of  the  guide  bereft,  the  rudder  loft. 
Your  fhip  Ihould  run  againft  the  rocky  coaft. 
Three  bluftering  nights,  borne  by  the  fouthern  blaft, 
I  floated,  and  difcover'd  land  at  laft:  48^ 

High  on  a  mountain  wave  my  head  I  bore ; 
Forcing  my  ftrength,  and  gathering  to  the  Ihore; 
Panting,  but  paft  the  danger,  now  I  feiz'd 
The  craggy  clifts,  and  my  tir'd  members  eas'd. 
While,  cumber'd  with  my  dropping  cloaths,  I  lay,  490 
The  cruel  nation,  covetous  of  prey, 
Stain'd  with  my  blood  th"  unhofpitable  coaft : 
And  now,  by  winds  and  waves,  my  lifekfs  limbs  are- 
toft: 
Which  O  avert,  by  yen  ethereal  light 
Which  I  have  loft,  for  this  eternal  night :  495 

Or,  if  by  dearer  ties  you  may  be  won, 
By  your  dead  fire,  and  by  your  living  fon, 
P.edeem  from  this  reproach  my  wandering  ghoft. 
Or  with  your  navy  feek  the  Velin  coaft; 
And  in  a  peaceful  grave  my  corpfe  corapofe:  5CC 

Or,  if  a  nearer  way  your  mother  ftiows. 
Without  whofe  aid,  you  durft  not  undertake 
This  frightful  paffage  o'er  the  Stygian  lake; 
Lend  to  this  wretch  your  hand,  and  waft  him  o'er 
To  the  fweet  banks  of  yon  forbidden  fhore,  50^; 

Scarce 


\^NErS.     BOOK    VT.  16^ 

Scafce  had  he  fald,  the  prophetefs  began. 

What  hopes  delude  thee,  miferable  man  ? 

Think 'ft  thou,  thus  unintomb'd,  to  crofs  the  floods, 'j 

To  view  the  furies,  and  infernal  gods;  t 

And  vifit,  without  leave,  the  dark  abodes?        51GJ 

Attend  the  term  of  long,  revolving  years : 

Fate,  and  the  dooming  gods,  are  deaf  to  tears. 

This  comfort  of  thy  dire  misfortune  take; 

The  wrath  of  heaven,  inflided  for  thy  fake. 

With  vengeance  (hall  purfue  th'  inhuman  coaft,      ^ij 

Till  they  propitiate  thy  offended  ghoft. 

And  raife  a  tomb,  with  vows,  and  folemn  prayer; 

And  Palinurus'  name  the  place  fliall  bear. 

This  calm'd  his  cares,  footh'd  with  his  future  fame. 

And  pleas 'd  to  hear  his  propagated  name.  520 

Now  nearer  to  the  Stygian  lake  they  draw. 
Whom,  from  the  Ihore,  the  furly  boatman  faw: 
Obferv'd  their  paflage  through  the  Ihady  wood. 
And  mark'd  their  near  approaches  to  the  flood  : 
Then  thus  he  call'd  aloud,  inflam'd  with  wrath;    525- 
Mortal,  whatever,  who  this  forbidden  path 
In  arms  prefum'ft  to  tread,  I  charge  thee  ftand. 
And  tell  thy  name,  and  bufinefs  in  the  land. 
Know  this,  the  realm  of  night;  the  Stygian  ihore: 
My  boat  conveys  no  living  bodies  o'er:  ^^o 

Nor  was  I  pleas'd  great  Thefeus  once  to  bear. 
Who  forc'd  a  paflTage  v.ith  his  pointed  fpear; 
Nor  ftrong  Alcides,  men  of  mighty  fame; 
And  from  th*  immortal  gods  their  liaeage  came, 

Li 


77©  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

In  fetters  one  the  barking  porter  ty'd,  ^^^  -r  ■ 

And  took  him  trembling  from  his  fovereign's  fide:     I 
Two  fought  by  force  to  feize  his  beauteous  bride.     J 
To  whom  the  Sibyl  thus :  Compofe  thy  mind : 
Nor  frauds  are  here  contriv'd^  nor  force  deiio-n'd. 
Still  may  the  dog  the  wandering  troops  conftrain  540  T, 
Of  airy  ghofts ;  and  vex  the  guilty  train :  V 

And  with  her  griily  lord  his  lovely  queen  remain.  J 
The  Trojan  chief,  whole  lineage  is  from  Jove,  y 
Much  fam'd  for  arms,  and  more  for  filial  love,  I 

Is  fent  to  feek  his  fire,  in  your  Elyfian  grove,     545  J 
If  neither  piety,  nor  heaven's  command. 
Can  gain  his  paffage  to  the  Stygian  ftrand,,, 
Tliis  fatal  prefent  Ihall  prevail  at  leaft; 
Then  Ihew'd  the  Ihining  bough,  conceal'd  within  her 

vcft. 
No  more  was  needful,  for  the  gloomy  god  ^^q 

Stood  mute  with  awe,  to  fee  the  golden  rod : 
Admir'd  the  deftin'd  offering  to  the  queen 
(A  venerable  gift  fo  rarely  feen). 
His  fury  thus  appeas'd,  he  puts  to  land; 
The  ghofts  forfake  their  feats  at  his  command :        ^^^ 
He  clears  the  deck,  receives  the  mighty  freight. 
The  leaky  veffel  groans  beneath  the  weight. 
Slowly  ihe  fails,  and  fcarcely  ftems  the  tides : 
The  preffing  v/ater  pours  v/ithin  her  fides,. 
His  paffengers,  at  length,  are  wafted  o'er;  ^60 

Expos'd  in  muddy  weeds  upon  the  miry  fhore. 
No  fooner  landed,  in  his  den  they  found 
The  triple  porter  of  the  Stygian  found. 

Grim 


^NEIS.      BOOK     Vr;  37? 

Grim  Cerberus ;  who  foon  began  to  rear 
His  crefted  fnakes,  and  arm'd  his  briftling  hair,      565 
The  prudent  Sibyl  had  before  prepar'd. 
A  fop  in  honey  fteep'd  to  charm  the  guard,. 
Which,  mix'd  with  powerful  drugs,  fhe  caft  before 
His  greedy,  grinding  jaws,  jull  op"d  to  roar: 
With  three  enormous  mouths  he  gapes,  and  ftraight. 
With  hunger  prefs'd,  devours  the  pleafing  bait. 
Long  draughts  of  fleep  his  monftrous  limbs  enflavej 
He  reels,  and,  falling,  fills  the  fpacious  cave,. 
The  keeper,  charm'd,  the  chief  without  delay 
Pafs'd  on,  and  took  th'  irremeable  way.  ^-j^ 

Before  the  gates,  the  cries  of  babes  new  born. 
Whom  fate  had  from  their  tender  mothers  torn, 
Affault  his  ears :  then  thofe  whom  form  of  laws 
Condemn'd  to  die,  when  traitors  judg'd  their  caufe, 
Kor  want  they  lots,  nor  judges  to  review  580 

The  wrongful  fentence,  and  award  a  new, 
Minos,  the  ftrift  inquifitor,  appears. 
And  lives  and  crimes,  with  his  aflelTors,  hears. 
Round,  in  his  urn,  the  blended  balls  he  rolls, 
Abfolves  the  juil,  and  dooms  the  guilty  fcuK         58^ 
The  next  in  place,  and  punidiment,  are  they 
Who  prodigally  throv/  their  fouls  away; 
Fools,  who  repining  at  their  wretched  ftate. 
And  loathing  anxious  life,  faborn'd  their  fate. 
With  late  repentance  now  they  would  retrieve         590 
The  bodies  they  forfook,  and  wi(h  to  live. 
Their  pains  and  poverty  defire  to  bear. 
To  view  the  light  of  heaven,  and  breathe  the  vital  air. 

But 


*7*  PRYDEN»S    VIRGIL. 

But  fate  forbids;  the  Stygian  floods  oppofe. 

And,  with  nine  circling  ftreams,  the  captive  foul  inclofe,. 

Not  far  from  thence,  the  mournful  fields  appear; 
So  caird,  from  lovers  that  inhabit  there. 
The  fouls,  whom  that  unhappy  flame  invades. 
In  fecret  folitude,  and  myrtle  Ihades, 
Make  endlefs  moans,  and,  pining  with  defire^,.         600 
Lament  too  late  their  unextinguifh'd  fire. 
Here  Procris,  Eriphyle  here,  he  found 
Baring  her  breaft,  yet  bleeding  with  the  wound 
Made  by  her  fon.     He  faw  Pafiphae  there. 
With  Phaedra's  ghoft,  a  foul  inceftuous  pair.  605 

There  Laodamia,  with  Evadne  moves : 
Unhappy  both,  but  loyal  in  their  loves. 
Cseneus,  a  woman  once,  and  once  a  man;. 
But  ending  in  the  fex  fhe  firft  began. 
Not  far  from  thefe  Ph^nician  Dido  flood,  610 

Freih  from  her  wound,  her  bofom  bath'd  in  blood. 
Whom,  when  the  Trojan  hero  hardly  knew, 
Obfcure  in  Ihades,  and  with  a  doubtful  viev/ 
(Doubtful  as  he  who  runs  through  dufky  night. 
Or  thinks  he  fees  the  moon's  uncertain  light);         61^ 
With  tears  he  firft:  approach'd  the  fullen  fhade. 
And,  as  his  love  infpir'd  him,  thus  he  faid : 
Unhappy  queen!  then  is  the  common  breath 
Of  rumour  true,  in  your  reported  death. 
And  I,  alas,  the  caufe!  By  heaven,  I  vow,  620- 

And  all  the  powers  that  rule  the  realms  below. 
Unwilling  I  forfook  your  friendly  fl:ate : 
■  Commanded  by  the  gods,  and  forc'd  by  fate, 

Thofc 


^  N  E  i  S.     B  0  0  K    vr.  vj^ 


} 


Tliofe  gods,  that  fate,  whofe  unrefiftcd  might 

Have  fent  me  to  thefe  regions,  void  of  light :     625 

Through  the  vaft  empire  of  eternal  night. 

Kor  dar'd  I  to  prefume,  that,  prefs'd  with  grief. 

My  flight  fhould  urge  you  to  this  dire  relief. 

Stay,  ftay  your  fteps,  and  liften  to  my  vows, 

'Tis  the  laft  interview  that  fate  allows!  630 

Jn  vain  he  thus  attempts  her  mind  to  move. 

With  tears  and  prayers,  and  late  repenting  love: 

Difdainfully  fhe  look'd;  then  turning  round. 

But  fix'd  her  eyes  unmov'd  upon  the  ground: 

And  what  he  fays,  and  fwears,  regards  no  more,     63  j 

Than  the  deaf  rocks,  when  the  loud  billov/s  roar. 

But  whirl'd  away,  to  fhun  his  hateful  light. 

Hid  in  the  foreft,  and  the  (hades  of  night. 

Theij  fought  Sichaeus,  through  the  fhady  grove. 

Who  anfwer'd  all  her  cares,  and  equal'd  all  her  love. 

Some  pious  tears  the  pitying  hero  paid, 

sAnd  follow'd  with  his  eyes  the  flitting  fhade. 

Then  took  the  forward  way,  by  fate  ordain'd. 

And,  with  his  guide,  the  farther  fields  attain'd, 

W^here,   fever 'd  from  the  reft,    the  warrior  fouls 

remain'd. 
Tideus  he  met,  with  Meleager's  race. 
The  pride  of  armies,  and  the  foldiers  grace; 
And  pale  Adraftus  with  his  ghaftly  face, 
'Of  Trojan  chiefs  he  view'd  a  numerous  train: 
All  much  lamented,  all  in  battle  flain.  650 

Glaucus  and  Medon,  high  above  the  reft, 
Antenoi's  fonsj,  and  Ceres'  facredjjrieft; 

And 


1 
) 


^4-  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

And  proud  Idaeus,  Priam's  charioteer. 

Who  (hakes  his  empty  reins,  and  aims  his  airy  fpear. 

The  gladfome  ghofts,  in  circling  troops,  attend,     6^^ 

And,  with  unv/eary'd  eye&,  behold  their  friend. 

Delight  to  hover  near,  and  long  to  know 

What  bufinefs  brought  him  to  the  realms  below. 

But  Argive  chiefs,  and  Agamemnon's  train. 
When  his  refulgent  arms  flafli'd  through  the  fnady  plain. 
Fled  from  his  well-known  face,  with  v/onted  fear. 
As  when  his  thundering  fword  and  pointed  fpear 
Drove  headlong  to  their  Ihips,  and  gleand  the 

routed  rear. 

They  jais'd  a  feeble  cr)%  with  trembling  notes; 
Bnt  the  weak  voice  deceiv'd  their  gafping  throats* 
Here  Priam'-s  fon,  Deiphobus  he  found, 
Whofe  face  and  limbs  were  one  continued  wound, 
Difnoneft,  v/ith  lopp'd  arms,  the  youth  appears, 
Spoird  of  his  nofe,  and  Ihorten'd  of  his  ears. 
He  fcarcely  knew  him,   ftriving  to  difown  670 

His  blotted  form,  and  blufhing  to  be  known. 
And  therefore  nrH  began :  O  Teucer's  race. 
Who  durft  thy  faultlefs  figure  thus  deface  ^ 
What  heart  could  wifh^   what  hand  inflift,  this  dire 

difgrace? 

-*Tv/as  fam'd,  that  in  our  laft  and  fatal  night,  675 

Your  fingle  prowefs  long  fuftain'd  the  fight: 
Till,  tir'd,  not  forc'd,  a  glorious  fate  you  chofe. 
And  fell  upon  a  heap  of  llaughter'd  foes, 
3ut,  in  remembrance  of  fo  brave  a  deed, 
-A  tomb  and  funeral  honours  I  decreed-  6S0 

Thrice 


JENEIS.      BOOK    vr.  J7g 

'Tlirice  call'd  your  manes  on  the  Trojan  plains: 
The  place  your  armour  and  your  name  retains. 
Your  body  too  I  fought ;  and,  had  I  found, 
Defign'd  for  burial  in  your  native  ground. 

The  ghoft  reply 'd:   Your  piety  has  paid  €85 

All  needful  rites  to  reft  my  wandering  (hade : 
But  cruel  fate,  and  my  more  cruel  wife. 
To  Grecian  fwords  betray'd  my  fleeping  life. 
Thefe  are  the  monuments  of  Helen's  love ; 
The  fhame  I  bear  below,  the  marks  I  bore  above,  69O 
You  know  in  what  deluding  joys  we  paft 
The  night,  that  was  by  heaven  decreed  our  laft. 
For,  when  the  fatal  horfe  defcendiag  down. 
Pregnant  with  arms,  o'erwhelm'd  th'  unhappy  tovrn^ 
She  feign'd  nofturnal  orgies;  left  my  bed,  6^^ 

And,  mix'd  with  Trojan  dames,  the  dances  led; 
Then,  waving  high  her  torch,  the  fignal  made. 
Which  rouz'd  the  Grecians  from  their  ambufcade. 
With  watching  overworn.,  with  cares  opprefs'd,        "y 
Unhappy  I  had  laid  me  down  to  reft ;  700  f 

And  heavy  deep  my  weary  limbs  pofTefs'd.  J 

Meantime  my  worthy  wife  our  arms  miiflay'd ; 
And,  from  beneath  my  head,  my  fword  convey 'd: 
The  door  unlatch'd;  and,  with  repeated  calls.. 
Invites  her  former  lord  within  my  walls.  ^05 

Thus  in  her  crime  her  confidence  Ihe  plac'd. 
And  with  new  treafons  would  redeem  the  paft. 
What  need  I  more  ?  Into  the  room  they  ran. 
And  meanly  murder'd  a  defencelefs  man, 

Ulyfles^ 


} 
} 


I7&  DR  YD  EN'S    VIRGIL. 

UlyiTes,  bafely  born,  firft  led  the  way:  710 

Avenging  power!  with  juftice  if  I  pray. 
That  fortune  be  their  own  another  day! 

But  anfwer  you;  and  in  your  turn  relate. 
What  brought  you,  living  to  the  Stygian  ftate  ? 
Driven  by  the  winds  and  errors  of  the  fea,  -715- 

Or  did  you  heaven's  fuperior  doom  obey? 
Or  tell  what  other  chance  condufts  your  way  ? 
To  view  with  mortal  eyes  our  dark  retreats. 
Tumults  and  torments  of  th'  infernal  feats  ? 
While  thus,  in  talk,  the  flying  hours  they  pafs,      720 
The  fun  had  finifh'd  more  than  half  his  race  : 
And  they,  perhaps,  in  words  and  tears  had  fpent 
The  little  time  of  ftay,  which  heaven  had  lent. 
But  thus  the  Sibyl  chides  their  long  delay,* 
Night  rufhes  down,  and  headlong  drives  the  day:  725 
*Tis  here,  in  different  paths,  the  way  divides j 
The  right,  to  Pluto's  golden  palace  guides; 
The  left  to  that  unhappy  region  tends. 
Which  to  the  depth  of  Tartarus  defcends ;  730 

The  feat  of  night  profound,  and  punifh'd  fiends. 
Then  thus  Deiphobus :  O  facred  m^aid ! 
Forbear  to  chide ;  and  be  your  will  obey'd : 
Lo  to  the  fecret  Ihadows  I  retire. 
To  pay  my  penance  till  m.y  years  expire. 
Proceed,  aufpicious  prince,  v/ith  glory  crown'd,    73^ 
And  born  to  better  fates  than  I  have  found. 
He  faid ;  and  while  he  faid,  his  fleps  he  turn'd 
To  fecret  Ihadows,  .and  in  filence  mourn'd. 

The 


} 


^NEIS.      BOOK    VI.  177 

The  hero,  looking  on  the  left,  ^fpy'd 
A  lofty  tower,  and  ftrong  on  every  fide  740 

V/ith  treble  walls,  which  Phlegethon  furrounds, 
Whofe  fiery  flood  the  burning  empire  bounds : 
And,  prefs'd  betwixt  the  rocks,  the  bellowing  noife 

refounds. 

Wide  is  the  fronting  gate,  and,  rais'don  high 
With  adamantine  columns,  threats  the  Iky,  *j^^ 

Vain  is  the  force  of  man,  and  heaven's  as  vain. 
To  crufh  the  pillars  which  the  pile  fuftain. 
Sublime  on  thefe  a  tower  of  fteel  is  rear'd. 
And  dire  Tifiphone  there  keeps  the  ward. 
Girt  in  her  fanguine  gown,  by  night  and  day,         y^o 
Obfervant  of  the  fouls  that  pafs  the  down^vard  way : 
Frcfei  'hence  are  heard  the  groans  of  ghofts,  the  pains 
Of  founding  lafheSj  and  of  dragging  chains. 
The  Trojan  flood  aflonifh'd  at  their  cries. 
And  alk'd  his  guide,  from  whence  thofe  yells  arife? 
And  what  the  crimes  and  what  the  tortures  were. 
And  loud  laments  that  rent  the  liquid  air? 
She  thus  reply'd :  The  chafte  and  holy  race 
Are  all  forbidden  this  polluted  place. 
But  Hecate,  when  fhe  gave  to  rule  the  woods^  "i 

Then  led  me  trembling  through  thofe  dire  abodes,    y 
And  taught  the  tortures  of  th'  avenging  gods,  J 

Thefe  are  the  realms  of  unrelenting:  fate; 
And  awful  Rhadamanthus  rules  the  ftate : 
He  hears  and  judges  each  committed  crime;  765; 

Inquires  into  the  manner,  place,  and  time. 
Vol.  XXIII.  N  The 


178;  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

The  confcious  wretch  muft  all  his  acls  reveal: 

Loth  to  confefs,  unable  to  conceal  ; 

From  the  firft  moment  of  his  vital  breath. 

To  this  laft  hour  of  unrepenting  death,  7^0 

Straight,  o'er  the  guilty  ghoft,  the  fury  ihakes  ~| 

The  founding  whip,  and  brandifhes  her  fnakes :         J- 

And  the  pale  fmner,  with  her  fifters,  takes.  J 

Then,  of  itfelf,  unfolds  th'  eternal  door: 

With  dreadful  founds  the  brazen  hinges  roar.  773; 

You  fee,  before  the  gate,  what  Haiking  ghoft 

Commands  the  guard,  what  Gentries  keep  the  pofl:. 

More  formidable  Hydra  {lands  within; 

Whofe  jaws  with  iron  teeth  feverely  grin. 

The  gaping  gulph,  low  to  the  centre  lies;  780 

And  twice  as  deep  as  earth  is  diftant  from  the  Ikies, 

The  rivals  of  the  gods,  the  Titan  race. 

Here  fmg'd  with  lightning,  roll  within  th'  unfathom*d 

fpace. 
Here  lie  th'  Alaean  twins  (I  faw  them  both). 
Enormous  bodies,  of  gigantic  growth;    •  S'j^ 

Who  dar'd  in  fight  the  thunderer  to  defy; 
Affeft  his  heaven,  and  force  him  from  the  iky. 
Salmoneus,  fuffering  cruel  pains  I  found. 
For  emulating  Jove ;  the  rattling  found 
Of  mimic  thunder,  and  the  glittering  blaze  190 

Of  pointed  lightnings,  and  their  forky  rays. 
Through  Elis  and  the  Grecian  towns  he  flew : 
Th'  audacious  wretch  four  fiery  courfers  drew 
He  wav'd  a  torch  aloft,  and,  madly  vain. 
Sought  godlike  worfhip  from  a  fervile  train. 

5  Ambitious 


^ISIEIS.      BOOK    vr.  175 

Ambitious  fool,  with  horny  hoofs  to  pafs 
O'er  hollow  arches,  of  refounding  brafs ; 
To  rival  thunder,  in  its  rapid  courfe. 
And  imitate  inimitable  force. 

Bat  he,  the  king  of  heaven,  obfcure  on  high,  8od 

Bar'd  his  red  arm,  and  launching  from  the  Iky 
His  writhen  bolt,  not  fliaking  empty  fmoke, 
Down  to  the  deep  ab}^fs  the  flaming  felon  ftrook. 
There  Tityus  was  to  fee,  who  took  his  birth 
From  heaven ;  his  nurfmg  from  the  foodful  earth. 
Here  his  gigantic  limbs,  with  -large  embrace. 
Infold  nine  acres  of  infernal  fpace. 
A  ravenous  vulture  in  his  open'd  fide. 
Her  crooked  beak  and  cruel  talons  try'd; 
Still  for  the  growing  liver  digg'd  his  breaft;  8io 

The  growing  liver  Itill  fupply'd  the  feaft. 
Still  are  his  entrails  fruitful  to  their  pains: 
Th'  immortal  hunger  lalls,  th'  immortal  food  remains. 
Ixion  and  Pirithous  I  could  name; 
And  more  Thefialian  chiefs  of  mighty  fame,  Si^ 

High  o'er  their  heads  a  mouldering  rock  is  plac'd. 
That  promifes  a  fall,  and  fhakes  at  every  blall. 
They  lie  below,  on  golden  beds  difplay'd. 
And  genial  feafls,  with  regal  pomp,  are  made. 
The  queen  of  furies  by  their  fides  is  fet,  820 

And  fnatches  from  their  mouths  th'  untafled  meat. 
Which  if  th'.y  touch,  her  hiffing  fnakes  fhe  rears: 
TofTing  her  torch,  and  thundering  in  their  ears. 
Then  they,  who  brothers  better  claim  difown. 
Expel  their  parents,  and  ufurp  the  tlirone;  825' 

N  Z  Defraud 


sSo  BRYDENVS    VIRGIL^ 

Defraud  their  clients,  and  to  lucre  fold. 

Sit  brooding  on  unprofitable  gold  : 

Who  dare  not  give,  and  ev'n  refufe  to  lend 

To  their  poor  kindred,  or  a  wanting  friend  ; 

Vaft  is  the  throng  of  thefe;  nor  lefs  the  train  830 

Of  luftful  youths,  for  foul  adultery  flain. 

Hofts  of  deferters,  who  their  honour  fold, 

^nd  bafely  broke  their  faith  for  bribes  of  gold : 

All  thefe  within  the  dungeon's  depth  remain, 

Defpairing  pardon,  and  expeding  pain.  85^ 

Aflc  not  what  pains ;  nor  farther  feek  to  know 

Their  procefs,  or  the  forms  of  law  below. 

Some  roll  a  mighty  ilone ;  fome  laid  along, 

And,  bound  with  burning  wires,  on  fpokes  of  wheels 

are  hung. 

Unhappy  Thefeus,  doom'd  for  ever  there,  840 

Is  fix'd  by  fate  on  his  eternal  chair: 

And  wretched  Phle2:ias  warns  the  world  with  cries 

|Could  warning  make  the  world  more  juft  or 

Learn  righteoufnefs,  and  dread  th'  avenging  deities. 

To  tyrants  others  have  their  country  fold,  845 

Impofing  foreign  lords,  for  foreign  gold : 

Some  have  old  lav/s  repeal'd,  new  ftatutes  made; 

Not  as  the  people  pleas 'd,  but  as  they  paid. 

With  inceft  fome  their  daughters  bed  profan'd. 

All  dar'd  the  worft  of  ills,  and  what  they  dar'd,  attain' d* 

Had  I  a  hundred  mouths,  a  hundred  tongues. 

And  throats  of  brafs,  infpir'd  with  iron  lungs, 

I  could  not  half  thofe  horrid  crimes  repeat. 

Nor  half  the  punilhments  thofe  crimes  have  met. 

But 


cries  l 
wife),  V 
sities.  J 


J^NEIS.     BOOK    VI.  j%j 

But  let  us  hafte  our  voyage  to  purfue ;  S^^ 

The  walls  of  Pluto's  palace  are  in  view: 

The  gate,  and  iron  arch  above  it,  Hands 

On  anvils,  labour'd  by  the  Cyclops  hands. 

Before  our  farther  way  the  fates  allow. 

Here  muft  we  fix  on  high  the  golden  bough.  860 

She  faid ;  and  through  the  gloomy  fhades  they  paft. 

And  chofe  the  middle  path:  arriv'd  at  laft. 

The  prince,  with  living  water,  fprinkJed  o'er 

His  limbs  and  body,  then  approach'd  the  door, 

Poffefs'd  the  porch,  and  on  the  front  above  86c 

He  fix'd  the  fatal  bough,  requir'd  by  Pluto's  love. 

Thefe  holy  rites  perform'd,  they  took  their  way. 

Where  long-extended  plains  of  pleafure  lay. 

The  verdant  fields  with  thofe  of  heaven  may  vie; 

With  aether  veiled,  and  a  purple  Iky  :  87 d 

The  blifsful  feats  of  happy  fouls  below : 

Stars  of  their  own,  and  their  own  funs  they  know. 

Their  airy  limbs  in  fports  they  exercife. 

And,  on  the  green,  contend  the  wredler's  prize. 

Some,  in  heroic  verfe,  divinely  fing. 

Others  in  artful  meafures  lead  the  ring. 

The  Thracian  bard,  furrounded  by  the  reft. 

There  ftands  confpicuous  in  his  flowing  veil.- 

His  flying  fingers,  and  harmonious  quill. 

Strike  feven  diflingui(h"d  notes,  and  feveo  at  once  they 

fiU. 
Here  found  they  Teucer's  old  heroic  race ; 
Bom  better  times,  and  happier  years  to  grace. 

I^  3  AfTaracus 


i%%  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Aflfaracus  and  Has  here  enjoy 
Perpetual  fame,  with  him  who  founded  Troy. 
The  chief  beheld  their  chariots  from  afar,  885 

Their  fhining  arms,  and  courfers  train'd  to  war: 
Their  lances  fix'd  in  earth,  their  fteeds  around. 
Free  from  their  harnefs,  graze  the  flowery  ground* 
The  love  of  horfes  which  they  had,  alive. 
And  care  of  chariots,  after  death  furvive.  890 

Some  chearful  fouls,  were  feafting  on  the  plain ; 
Some  did  the  fong,  and  fome  the  choir  maintain : 
Beneath  a  laurel  fhade,  where  mighty  Po 
Mounts  up  to  woods  above,  and  hides  his  head  below. 
Here  patriots  live,  who  for  their  country's  good,  895 
In  fighting  fields,  were  prodigal  of  blood; 
Priefts  of  unblemifh'd  lives  here  made  abode. 
And  poets  worthy  their  afpiring  god: 
And  fearching  wits,  of  more  mechanic  parts. 
Who  grac'd  their  age  with  new  invented  arts.         900 
Thofe  who,  to  worth,  their  bounty  did  extend ; 
And  thofe  who  knew  that  bounty  to  commend. 
The  heads  of  thefe  with  holy  fillets  bound. 
And  all  their  temples  were  with  garlands  crovvn'd. 
To  thefe,  the  Sibyl  thus  her  fpeech  addrefs'd ;  905 
And  firft  to  him  furrounded  by  the  reft; 
Towering  his  height,  and  ample  was  his  breaft : 
Say,  happy  fouls,  divine  Mufsus  fay. 
Where  lives  Anchifes,  and  where  lies  our  way 
To  find  the  hero,  for  whofe  only  fake  910 

We  fought  the  dark  abodes,  and  crofs'd  the  bitter  lake  ? 

To 


} 


^NEIS.      BOOK    VI.  iJj 

To  this  the  facred  poet  thus  reply "d. 
In  no  fix'd  place  the  happy  fouls  refide; 
In  groves  we  live,  and  He  on  mofly  beds. 
By  cryftal  ftreams,  that  murmur  through  the  meads: 
But  pafs  yon  eafy  hill,  and  thence  defcend. 
The  path  condmfls  you  to  your  journey's  end. 
This  faid,  he  led  them  up  the  mountain's  brow. 
And  fhews  them  all  the  fhining  fields  below ; 
They  wind  the  hill,  and  through  the  blifsful  mea- 
dows go,  920 -- 
But  old  Anchifes,  in  a  flowery  vale. 
Reviewed  his  mufter'd  race,  and  took  the  tale, 
Thofe  happy  fpirits,  which,  ordain 'd  by  fate. 
For  future  being,  and  new  bodies  wait. 
With  ftudious  thought  obferv'd  th'  illuilrious  throng. 
In  nature's  order  as  they  pafs'd  along. 
Their  names,  their  fates,  their  condud:,  and  their  care. 
In  peaceful  fenates,  and  fuccefsful  war. 
He,  when  ^Eneas  on  the  plain  appears. 
Meets  him  with  open  arms,  and  falling  tears,         930 
Welcom.e,  he  faid,  the  gods  undoubted  race, 
O  long  expedled  to  my  dear  embrace; 
Once  more  'tis  given  me  to  behold  your  face ! 
The  love  and  pious  duty  which  you  pay. 
Have  pafs'd  the  perils  of  fo  hard  a  way,  93^ 
'Tis  true,  computing  times  I  now  believ'd 
The  happy  day  approachd,  nor  are  my  hopes  deceiv*d. 
What  length  of  lands,  what  oceans  have  you  pafs'd. 
What  Itorms  fuftain'd,  and  oawhat  (hores  been  caft? 

N  4  Hovr 


} 


a?4  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

How  have  I  fear'd  your  fate!  But  fear'd  It  mofl:    940 

When  love  aiTaild  you  on  the  Libyan  coaft. 

To  this,  the  filial  duty  thus  replies :  "1 

Your  facred  gholl  before  my  keeping  eyes  > 

Appear'd ;  and  often  urg'd  this  painful  enterprize,    J 

After  long  tofiing  on  the  Tyrrhene  fea,  945' 

My  navy  rides  at  anchor  in  the  bay. 

But  reach  your  hand,  oh  parent  fnade,  nor  ihun 

The  dear  embraces  of  your  longing  fon ! 

He  faid,  and  falling  tears  his  face  bedew: 

Then  thrice  around  his  neck  his  arms  he  threw :     950 

And  thrice  the  flitting  fhadow  flipp'd  away. 

Like  winds,  or  empty  dream.s  that  fly  the  day. 

Now,  in  a  fecret  vale,  the  Trojan  fees 

A  feparate  grove,  through  which  a  gentle  breeze 

Plays  with  a  pafling  breath,  and  whifpers  through 

the  trees. 

And  juft  before  the  confines  of  the  wood. 
The  gliding  Lethe  leads  her  fllent  flood. 
About  the  boughs  an  airy  nation  flew. 
Thick  as  the  humming  bees,  that  hunt  the  golden  dew ; 
In  fummer's  heat,  on  tops  of  lilies  feed,  960 

And  creep  within  their  bells,  to  fuck  the  balmy  feed. 
The  winged  army  roams  the  field  around ; 
The  rivers  and  the  rocks  remurm.ur  to  the  found, 
^neas  wondering  ftood :  then  afk'd  the  caufe. 
Which  to  the  ftream  the  crowding  people  draws.    96^ 
Then  thus  the  fire :   The  fouls  that  throng  the  flood 
Are  thofe,  to  whom^  by  fate,  are  other  bodies  ow'd ; 

In 


JEKEIS.     BOOK    vr.  iJj 

In  lathe's  lake  they  long  oblivion  tafte ; 

Of  future  life  fecure,  forgetful  of  the  pafi:. 

Long  has  my  foul  defir'd  this  time  and  place,         9*0 

To  fet  before  your  fight  your  glorious  race. 

That  this  prefaging  joy  may  fire  your  mind. 

To  feek  the  fhores  by  deftiny  defign'd. 

O  Father,  can  it  be,  that  fouh  fublime, 

Keturn  to  vifit  our  terreftrial  clime?  gj^ 

And  that  the  generous  mind,  releas'd  by  death. 

Can  covet  lazy  limbs,  and  mortal  breath? 

Anchifes,  then,  in  order  thus  begun 

To  clear  thofe  wonders  to  his  godlike  fon : 

Know  firft,  that  heaven  and  earth's  compadled  frame,- 

And  flowing  waters,  and  the  ftarry  flame. 

And  both  the  radiant  lights,  one  common  foul 

Infpires  and  feeds,  and  animates  the  whole. 

This  aftive  mind  infus'd  through  all  the  fpace. 

Unites  and  mingles  with  the  mighty  mafs.  98J 

Hence  men  and  beafts  the  breath  of  life  obtain ; 

And  birds  of  air,  and  monfters  of  the  main, 

Th'  ethereal  vigour  is  in  all  the  fame. 

And  every  foul  is  fill'd  with  equal  flame  t 

As  much  as  earthy  limbs,  and  grofs  allay  990 

Of  mortal  members,  fubjeft  to  decay. 

Blunt  not  the  beams  of  heaven  and  edge  of  day. 

From  this  coarle  mixture  of  terreftrial  parts, 

Defire  and  fear  by  turns  polTefs  their  hearts : 

And  grief  and  joy,  nor  can  the  groveling  mine 

In  the  dark  dungeon  of  the  limbs  confin 

Aflert  the  native  Ikies,  or  own  its  heavenly 

Nor 


} 

eling  mine,      t 
ifin'd,  I 

ivenly  kind.     J 


jl5  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Nor  death  itfelf  can  wholly  wafh  their  ftains : 

But  long-contraded  filth,  e'en  in  the  foul,  remains. 

The  relicks  of  inveterate  vice  they  wear :  i  oco 

And  fpots  of  fin  obfcene  in  every  face  appear. 

For  this  are  various  penances  injoin'd; 

And  fome  are  hung  to  bleach  upon  the  wind ; 

Some  plung'd  in  waters,  others  purg'd  in  fires,     IC05' 

Till  all  the  dregs  are  drain'd,  and  all  the  rufl expires! 

All  have  their  Manes,  and  thofe  Manes  bear ;  1 

The  few,  fo  cleans'd,  to  thefe  abodes  repair,  y 

And  breathe,  in  ample  fields,  the  foft  Elyfian  air,    J 

Then  are  they  happy,  when,  "by  length  of  time. 

The  fcurf  is  worn  away  of  each  committed  crime. 

No  fpeck  is  left  of  their  habitual  ftains ; 

But  the  pure  xthtr  of  the  foul  remains. 

But  when  a  thoufand  rolling  years  are  paft 

(So  long  their  punifhments  and  penance  laft); 

Whole  droves  of  minds  are,  by  the  driving  god,  loi  r 

Compell'd  to  drink  the  deep  Lethasan  flood ; 

In  large  forgetful  draughts  to  deep  the  cares 

Of  their  paft  labours,  and  their  irkfome  years. 

That,  unrememberlng  of  its  former  pain. 

The  foul  may  fuifer  mortal  flefh  again,  IG20 

Thus  having  faid ;  the  father  fpirit  leads 

The  prieftefs  and  his  fon  through  fwarms  of  fhades. 

And  takes  a  rifing  ground,  from  thence  to  fee 

The  long  proceffion  of  his  progeny. 

Survey  (purfu'd  the  fire)  this  airy  throng;  102^ 

As,  offer'd  to  the  \kw,  they  pafs  along, 

Thefe 


^NEIS.     BOOK    VI.  187 

Thefe  are  th'  Italian  names,  which  fate  will  join 
With  ours,  and  graft  upon  the  Trojan  line. 
Obferve  the  youth  who  firft  appears  in  fight. 
And  holds  the  neareft  ftation  to  the  light,  1030 

Alreadv  Teems  to  fnuffthe  vital  air. 
And  leans  juft  forward  on  a  fhining  fpear; 
Silvius  is  he:  thy  laft-begotten  race. 
But  firll  in  order  fent,  to  fill  thy  place. 
An  Alban  name,  but  mix'd  with  Dardan blood:   103^ 
Born  in  the  covert  of  a  fhady  wood : 
Him  fair  Lavinia,  thy  furviving  wife. 
Shall  breed  in  groves,  to  lead  a  folitary  life. 
In  Alba  he  fhall  fix  his  royal  feat : 
And,  born  a  king,  a  race  of  kings  beget.  1040 

Then  Procas,  honour  of  the  Trojan  name, 
Capys,  and  Numitor,  of  endlefs  fame. 
And  fecond  Silvius  after  thefe  appears ; 
Silvius  iEneas,  for  thy  name  he  bears. 
For  arms  and  juftice  equally  renov»-n'd  :  ^^^S 

Who,  late  reftor'd,  in  Alba  fhall  be  crown 'd. 
How  great  they  look,  how  vigoroufly  they  wield 
Their  weighty  lances,  and  fuftain  the  fhield ! 
But  they,  who  crown'd  with  oaken  wreaths  appear. 
Shall  Gabian  walls  and  flrong  Fidenas  rear:  1050 

Nomentum,  Bola,.  with  Pometia  found ; 
And  raife  Colatian  towers  on  rocky  eround. 
All  thefe  fhall  then  be  tov/ns  of  mighty  fame. 
Though  now  they  lie  obfcure,  and  lands  without  a 
name. 

See 


lU  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

See  Romulus  the  great,  born  to  redore  i  o^^ 

The  crown  that  once  his  injur 'd  grandfire  wore. 

This  prince,  a  prieftefs  of  your  blood  fhall  bear; 

And,  like  his  fire,  in  arms  he  fhall  appear. 

Two  rifing  crefls  his  royal  head  adorn; 

Born  from  a  god,  himfelf  to  godhead  born,  1060 

His  fire,  already,  figns  him  for  the  (kies. 

And  marks  the  feat  amidfl  the  deities. 

Aufpicious  chief!  thy  race  in  times  to  come 

Shall  fpread  the  conqueft  of  imperial  Rome. 

Rome,  whofe  afcending  towers  fhall  heaven  invade; 

Involving  earth  and  ocean  in  her  fhade. 

High  as  the  mother  of  the  gods  in  place; 

And  proud,  like  her,  of  an  immortal  race. 

Then  when  in  pomp  fhe  makes  the  Phrygian  roun^. 

With  golden  turrets  on  her  temples  crov/n'd,         iojof 

A  hundred  gods  her  fweeping  train  fupply; 

Her  offspring  all,  and  all  command  the  fky. 

Now  fix  your  %ht,  and  ftand  intent,  to  fee 

Your  Roman  race,  and  Julian  progeny. 

The  mighty  Caefar  waits  his  vital  hour,  107^ 

Impatient  for  the  world,  and  grafps  his  promis'd  power. 
But  next  behold  the  youth  of  form  divine, 
Csefar  himfelf,  exalted  in  his  line; 
Auguftus,  promis'd  oft,  and  long  foretold. 
Sent  to  the  realm  that  Saturn  ruFd  of  old;         1080 
Born  to  reflore  a  better  age  of  gold. 
Afric  and  India  fhall  his  power  obey. 
He  fhall  extend  his  propagated  fway 
Beyond  the  folar  year,  without  the  flarry  way. 

WhcK 


] 
} 


JENEIS.     BOOK    VT.  1S9 

Where  Atlas  turns  the  rolling  heavens  around :      108^ 

And  his  broad  ihoulders  with  their  lights  are  crown 'd* 

At  his  fore-feen  approach,  already  quake 

The  Cafpian  kingdoms,  and  IMseotian  lake. 

Their  feers  behold  the  ternpefts  from  afar. 

And  threatening  oracles  denounce  the  war.  1090 

Nile  hears  him  knocking  at  his  feven-fold  gates. 

And  feeks  his  hidden  Tpring,  and  fears  his  nephew  fates* 

Nor  Hercules  more  lands  or  labours  knew. 

Not  though  the  brazen-footed  hind  he  flew; 

Freed  Erymanthus  from  the  foaming  boar,  1 09 jf 

And  dipp'd  his  arrows  in  Lernsan  gore. 

Nor  Bacchus,  turning  from  his  Indian  war, 

Ey  tigers  drawn  triumphant  in  his  car. 

From  Nifus'.top  defcending  on  the  plains, 

"With  curling  vines  around  his  purple  reins,  1 1 00 

And  doubt  we  yet  through  dangers  to  purfue 

The  paths  of  honour,  £Lnd  a  crown  in  view  ? 

Bat  what's  the  man,  who  from  afar  appears. 

His  head  with  olive  crown'd,  his  hand  a  cenfer  bears? 

His  hoary  head  and  holy  veftments  bring  i  io_j 

His  loft  idea  back:  I  know  the  Roman  king-. 

He  fhall  to  peaceful  Rome  new  laws  ordain : 

Call'd  from  his  mean  abode,  a  fceptre  to  fuftaln. 

Plim  Tullus  next  in  dignity  fucceeds; 

An  aftive  prince,  and  prone  to  martial  deeds.       1 1  lO 

He  Ihall  his  troops  for  fighting  fields  prepare, 

Difus'd  to  toils,  and  triumphs  of  the  war. 

By  dint  of  fword,  his  crown  he  (hall  increafe. 

And  fcour  his  armour  from  the  ruft  of  peace. 

Whom 


I90  DR  YD  EN'S    VIRGIL. 

Whom  Ancus  follows,  with  a  fawning  air  '^^5 

But  vain  within,  and  proudly  popular. 

Next  view  the  Tarquin  kings :  th'  avenging  fword 

Of  Brutus  jullly  drawn,  and  Rome  reftor'd, 

Hs  firfl  renews  the  rods,  and  ax  fevere; 

And  gives  the  confuls  royal  robes  to  wear,  1 120 

His  fons,  who  feek  the  tyrant  to  fullain, 

A.nd  long  for  arbitrary  lords  again. 

With  ignominy  fcourg'd,  in  open  fight. 

He  dooms  to  death  deferv"d:  afierting  public  right. 

Unhappy  man,  to  break  the  pious  laws  ii2j^ 

Of  nature,  pleading  in  his  children's  caufe! 

Howeer  the  doubtful  faft  is  underftood,  "j 

'Tis  love  of  honour,  and  his  country's  good:  > 

The  conful,  not  the  father,  fheds  the  blood.  J 

Behold  Torquatus  the  fame  track  purfue;  1^30 

And  next,  the  two  devoted  Decii  view. 

The  Drufian  line,  Camillus  loaded  home 

With  ftandards  well  redeemed,  and  foreign  foes  o*er- 

come. 
The  pair  you  fee  in  equal  armour  fhine; 
(Xcv,-,  friends  below,  in  clofe  embraces  join :       113^ 
But  when  they  leave  the  fhady  realms  of  night. 
And,  cloath'd  in  bodies,  breathe  your  upper  light]. 
With  m.ortal  heat  each  other  ihall  purfue: 
What  wars,  what  wounds,  what  flaughter,  Ihall  enfue. 
From  Alpine  heights  the  father  firil:  defcends ; 
His  daughter's  hufband  in  the  plain  attenc 
His  daughter's  huiband  arms  his  eaftem 

Embrace- 


rends;  II 401 
nds :  y 

friends.       J 


iiccJ 


^  N  E  I  S*     BOOK    VI.  191 

Emorace  again,  my  fons;  be  foes  no  more: 

Nor  ftain  your  country  with  her  children's  gore. 

And  thou,  the firft,  lay  down  thy  lawlefs  claim;     1 145 

Thou,  of  my  blood,  who  bear'ft  the  Julian  name. 

Another  comes,  who  Ihall  in  triumph  ride. 

And  to  the  capitol  his  chariot  guide ; 

From  conquer'd  Corinth,  rich  with  Grecian  fpoils. 

And  yet  another,  fam'd  for  warlike  toils,  11 50 

On  Argos  fhall  impofe  the  Roman  laws; 

And,  on  the  Greeks,  revenge  the  Trojan  caufe; 

Shall  drag  in  chains  their  Achillean  race; 

Shall  vindicate  his  anceftors  difgrace : 

And  Pallas,  for  her  violated  place.  "^^^S 

Great  Cato  there,  for  gravity  renown'd. 

And  conquering  CoiTus  goes  with  laurels  crovrn'd. 

Who  can  omit  the  Gracchi,  who  declare 

The  Scipios'  worth,  thofe  thunderbolts  of  war. 

The  double  bane  of  Carthage?  Who  can  fee,        1 1 60 

Without  efteem  for  virtuous  poverty. 

Severe  Fabricius,  or  can  ceafe  t'  admire 

The  Ploughman  conful  in  his  coarfe  attire! 

Tir'd  as  I  am,  my  praife  the  Fabii  claim ; 

And  thou,  great  hero,  greatell  of  thy  name,         1 1 6^ 

Ordain'd  in  war  to  fave  the  finking  ftate. 

And,  by  delays,  to  put  a  flop  to  fate! 

Let  others  better  mould  the  running  mafs  "i 

Of  medals,  and  inform  the  breathing  brafs;  > 

And,  foften  into  fiefh  a  marble  face :  1 1 70  J 

Plead  better  at  the  bar;  defcribe  the  Ikies, 

And  when  the  liars  defcend^  and  when  they  rife. 

But, 


,.} 


192  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Bu-t,  Rome,  'tis  thine  alone  with  awful  fvvay. 

To  rule  minkind,  and  make  the  world  obey; 

Difpofing  peace,  and  war,  thy  own  majeftic  way 

To  tame  the  proud,  the  fetter 'd  flaveto  free; 

Thefe  are  imperial  arts,  and  worthy  thee. 

He  paus'd :  and  while  with  wondering  eyes  they  view'd 

The  pafling  fpirits,  thus  his  fpeech  renew'd: 

See  great  Marcellus!  how,  untir'd  in  toils,  1 1  §o 

He  moves  with  manly  grace,  how  rich  with  regal  fpoils ! 

He,  when  his  country  (threaten'd  with  alarms) 

Requires  his  courage,  and  his  conquering  arms. 

Shall  more  than  once  the  Punic  bands  affright : 

Shall  kill  the  Gaulilh  king  in  fingle  fight :  1 1 8^ 

Then,  to  the  capitol  in  triumph  mo^-e. 

And  the  third  fpoils  fnall  grace  Feretrian  Jove. 

^neas,  here,  beheld  of  form  divine 

A  godlike  youth,  in  glittering  armour  fhine; 

Vv^ith  great  Marcellus  keeping  equal  pace;  1 190 

But  gloomy  were  his  eyes,  dejeded  was  his  face: 

He  faw,  and,  wondering,  afk'd  his  airy  guide. 

What,  and  of  whence  was  he,  who  prefs'd  the  hero's 

fide? 
His  fon,  or  one  of  his  illuftrious  name. 
How  like  the  former,  and  almoft  the  fame :  ^^9y 

Obferve  the  crowds  that  compafs  him  around : 
All  gaze,  and  all  admire,  and  raife  a  fhouting  found : 
But  hovering  mifls  around  his  brows  are  fpread. 
And  night,  with  fable  fhades,  involves  his  head. 
Seek  not  to  know  (the  ghoft  reply'd  with  tears j     1 200 
The  forrows  of  thy  fons  in  future  years» 

This 


^  N  E  I  S.     S  D  O  K    Vir.  193 

This  youth  (the  blifsful  vifion  of  a  day) 
Shall  juil  be  fhown  on  earth,  and  fnatch'd  away. 
The  gods  too  high  had  rais'd  the  Roman  ftate; 
Were  but  their  gifts  as  permanent  as  great,  1205 

What  groans  of  men  Ihall  fill  the  Martian  field! 
How  fierce  a  blaze  his  flaming  pile  fhall  yield! 
What  funeral  pomp  {hall  floating  Tiber  fee. 
When,  rifing  from  his  bed,  he  views  the  fad  folemnlty ! 
No  youth  fhall  equal  hopes  of  glory  give :  1 2 1  o 

^o  youth  afford  fo  great  a  caufe  to  grieve. 
The  Trojan  honour,  and  the  Roman  boafl:^ 
Admir'd  when  living,  and  ador'd  when  loll! 
IVIirror  of  ancient  faith  in  early  youth! 
Undaunted  worth,  inviolable  truth!  1215 

No  foe  unpunifli'd  in  the  fighting  field. 
Shall  dare  thee  foot  to  foot,  wdth  fword  and  (hield : 
Much  lefs,  in  arms  oppofe  thy  matchlefs  force. 
When  thy  Iharp  fpurs  Ihall  urge  thy  foaming  horfe. 
Ah,  couldft  thou  break  through  fate's  fevere  decree, 
A  new  Marcellus  fliall  arife  in  thee! 
Full  canifters  of  fragrant  lilies  bring, 
Mix'd.  with  the  purple  rofes  of  the  fpring: 
Let  me  with  funeral  flowers  his  body  ftrow. 
This  gift  which  parents  to  their  children  owe,  1225 
This  unavailing  gift,  at  leail  I  may  bellow! 
Thus  having  faid,  he  led  the  hero  round 
The  confines  of  the  blell  Elyfian  ground. 
Which,  when  Anchifes  to  his  fon  had  fliown. 
And  fir'd  his  mind  to  mount  the  promis'd  throne,  1230 
Vol.  XXIII,  O  He 


} 


^94.  DRYDEN'S    VIRGII,. 

He  tells  the  future  wars  ordain'd  by  fate; 

The  ftrength  and  cuftoms  of  the  Latian  ftate; 

The  prince,  and  people :  and  fore-arms  his  care 

With  rules,  to  pufh  his  fortune,  or  to  bear. 

Two  gates  the  filent  houfe  of  fleep  adorn;  ^^3$ 

Of  polifh'd  ivory  thio,  that  of  tranfpar^nt  horn; 

True  vifions  through  tranfparent  horn  arife; 

Through  poliih'd  ivory  pafs  deluding  lies. 

Of  various  things  difcourfing  as  he  pafs'd, 

Anchifes  hither  bends  his  fteps  at  laft.  1 240 

Then,  through  the  gate  of  ivory,  he  difniif^'d 

Kis  valiant  offspring,  and  divining  gueil. 

Straight  to  the  fhips  -^neas  took  his  way;  "^ 

Embark'd  his  men,  and  ikim'd  along  the  fea:  V 

Still  coafting,  till  he  gain'd  Cajetas  bay.  1 245 J 

At  length  on  oozy  ground  his  galiies  moor: 

Their  heads  are  turn'd  to  fea,  tlieir  (leiiis  to  fhor«* 


HE 


C    ^95    3 

THE 

SEVENTH      BOOK 

OF       THE 

JE  N  E  I  S. 

THE    ARGUMENT. 

King  Latinus  entertains  iEneas,  and  promifes  him 
his  only  daughter,  Lavinia,  the  heirefs  of  his 
crown.  Tumus,  being  in  love  with  her,  favoured 
by  her  mother,  and  ftirred  up  by  Juno  and  Aledo, 
breaks  the  treaty  which  was  made,  and  engages  in 
his  quarrel  Mezentius,  Camilla,  Mcffapus,  and 
many  other  of  the  neighbouring  princes;  whole 
forces  and  the  names  of  their  comm.anders  are  par- 
ticularly related, 

AND  thou,  O  matron  of  immortal  fame! 
^^  Here  dying,  to  the  Ihore  haft  left  thy  name; 
Cajeta  ftill  the  place  is  called  from  thee. 
The  nurfe  of  great  iEneas'  infancy. 
Here  reft  thy  bones  in  rich  Hefperia's  plains,  5 

Thy  name  {'tis  all  a  ghoft  can  have)  remains. 

Now,  when  the  prince  her  funeral  rites  had  paid, 
Ht  plou^h'd  the  Tyrrhene  feas  with  fails  difplay'd. 

O  2  From 


75^  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

From  land  a  gentle  breeze  arofe  by  night,  "> 

Serenely  fhone  the  ftars,  the  moon  was  bright,      i  o  > 

And  the  Tea  trembled  with  her  filver  light.  J 

^ow  near  the  fhelves  of  Circe's  fhores  they  run 

(Circe  the  rich,  the  daughter  of  the  fun), 

A  dangerous  coaft :  the  goddefs  waftes  her  days 

In  joyous  fongs,  the  rocks  refound  her  lays:  i^ 

In  fpirming,  or  the  loom,  flie  fpends  the  night. 

And  cedar  brands  fupply  her  father's  light. 

From  hence  were  heard  (rebellowing  to  the  main) 

The  roars  of  lions  that  refufe  the  chain. 

The  grunts  of  briftled  boars;  and  groans  of  bears,    20 

And  herds  of  howling  wolves  that  ftun  the  failors  ears. 

Thefe  from  their  caverns,  at  the  clofe  of  night. 

Fill  the  fad  ifle  with  horror  and  affright. 

•Darkling  they  mourn  their  fate,  whom  Circe's  power 

'{That  watch'd  the  moon,  and  planetary  hour)  25 

With  words  and  wicked  herbs,  from  human  kind 

Had  alter 'd,  and  in  wicked  fhapes  confined. 

Which  monfters,  left  the  Trojans  pious  hoft 

Should  bear  or  touch  upon  th'  inchanted  coaft-: 

Propitious  Neptune  fteer'd  their  courfe  by. night,      30 

With  rifmg  gales,  that  fped  their  happy  flight. 

Supply 'd  with  thefe,  they  (kirn  the  founding  fliore. 

And  hear  the  fwelling  furges  vainly  roar, 

Kow  when  the  rofy  morn  began  to  rife. 

And  weav'd  her  faft'ron  ftreamer  through  the  flcies;   5.3; 

V;hen  Thetis  blufh'd  in  purple,  not  her  own. 

And  from  her  face  the  breathing  winds  are  blown, 

A  fuddea 


^NEI&.     BOOK    Vlt  in 

A  fudden  filence  fate  upon  the  Tea, 

And  fweeping  oars,  with  ftruggling,  urge  their  way. 

The  Trojan,  from  the  main,  beheld  a  wood,        40i 
Which  thick  with  (hades  and  a  brown  horror  flood: 
Betwixt  the  trees  the  Tiber  took  his  courfe. 
With  whirlpools  dimpled ;  and  with  downward  force 
That  drove  the  fand  along,  he  took  his  way,^ 
And  roird  his  yellow  billows  to  the  fea.  j^^ 

About  him,  and  above,  and  round  the  wood. 
The  birds  that  haunt  the  borders  of  his  flood;. 
That  bath'd  within,  or  bafk'd  upon  his  fide. 
To  tuneful  foags  their  narrow  throats  apply 'd. 
The  captain  gives  command ;  the  joyful  train  ^(y 

Glide  through  the  gloomy  fhade,  and  leave  the  main* 

Now,  Erato,  thy  poet's  mind  infpire. 
And  fill  his  foul  with  thy  celeftial  fire^ 
Relate  what  Latium  was:  her  ancient  kings:- 
Declare  the  paft,  and  prefent  ftate  of  things:  ^^ 

When  firft  the  Trojan  fleet  Aufonia  fought; 
And  how  the  rivals  lov'd,  and  how  tL-y  fought^ 
Thefe  are  my  theme,  and  how  the  war  began,. 
And  how  concluded  hy  the  godlike  man. 
For  I  fliall  fing  of  battles,  blood,  and  rage,  5o 

Vvliich  princes  and  their  people  did  engap-e: 
And  haughty  fouls,  that,  mov'd  with  mutual  hate. 
In  fighting  fields  purfu'd  and  found  their  fate: 
That  rouz'd  the  Tyrrhene  realm  with  loud  alarms. 
And  peaceful  Italy  involv'd  in  arms.  65 

A  larger  fcene  of  aftion  is  difplay'd. 
And,  rifing  hence,  a  greater  work  is  weigh'd. 

O  3  Latiniis, 


3i>J  DRYDEN^S    VIRGIL. 

LatlniK,  old  and  mild,  had  long  poffefs'd 
The  Latium  fceptre,  and  his  people  blefs'd ; 
His  father  Faunus ;  a  Laurentian  dame  70 

His  mother,  fair  Marica  was  her  name. 
But  Faunus  came  from  Picus,  Picus  drew 
His  birth  from  Saturn,  if  records  be  true. 
Thus  King  Latinus,  in  the  third  degree. 
Had  Saturn  author  of  his  family.  7  j; 

Xut  this  old  peaceful  prince,  as  heaven  decreed. 
Was  blefs'd  with  no  male  iiTue  to  fucceed: 
His  fons  in  blooming  youth  were  fnatch'd  by  fate : 
One  only  daughter  heir'd  the  royal  ftate, 
Fir'd  with  her  love,  and  with  ambition  led.  So 

The  neighbouring  princes  court  her  nuptial  bed. 
Among  the  crowd,  but  far  above  the  reft. 
Young  Tumus  to  the  beauteous  maid  addrefs'd. 
Tumus,  for  high  defcent  and  graceful  mien. 
Was  firft,  and  favour'd  by  the  Latian  queen:  85 

With  him  flie  ftrove  to  join  Lavinia's  hand; 
But  dire  portents  the  purpos'd  match  withftand. 

Deep  in  the  palace,  of  long  growth,  there  flood 
A  laurel's  trunk,  a  venerable  wood; 
Where  rites  divine  were  paid;  whofe  holy  hair         90 
Was  kept,  and  cut  with  fuperftitious  care. 
This  plant  Latinus,  when  his  tav/n  he  wall'd. 
Then  found,  and  from  the  tree  Laurentum  call'd: 
And  laft,  in  honour  of  his  new  abode. 
He  vow'd  the  laurel  to  the  laureFs  god,  95 

It  happen'd  once  (a  boding  prodigy) 
A  fwarm  of  bees  that  cut  the  liquid  Iky, 

Unknown 


) 


JENEIS.     BOOK    Vn.  199 

Unknown  from  wheace  they  took  their  air)'  flight. 

Upon  the  topmaft  branch  in  clouds  alight : 

There,  with  their  clafping  feet  together  clung,       100 

And  a  long  clufter  from  the  laurel  hung. 

An  ancient  Angur  prophefy*d  from  hence: 

Behold  on  Latian  ihores  a  foreign  prince ! 

From  the  fam^e  parts  of  heaven  his  navy  f!ands. 

To  the  fame  parts  on  earth :  his  anny  lands ;      1 05 

The  town  he  conquers,  and  the  tower  commands, 

Yet  more,  when  fair  Lavinia  fed  the  fire 

Before  the  gods,  and  flood  befide  her  fire; 

Strange  to  relate,  the  flames  involv'd  the  fmoke 

Of  incenfe,  from  the  facred  altar  broke :  1 10 

Caught  her  difhevel'd  hair  and  rich  attire; 

Her  crowns  and  jewels  crackled  in  the  fire : 

From  thence  the  fuming  trail  began  to  fpread. 

And  lambent  glories  danc'd  about  her  head. 

This  new  portent  the  feer  with  wonder  i^ews;        115; 

Then  paufing  thus,  his  prophecy  renews ; 

The  nymph  who  fcatters  flaming  fires  around. 

Shall  (hine  with  honour,  fiiall  herfelf  be  crown 'd; 

But,  caus'd  by  her  irrevocable  fate. 

War  fhall  the  country  wafte,  and  change  the  ftate,  1^0 

Latinus  frighted  with  this  dire  ofl:ent. 

For  counfel  to  his  father  Faunus  went : 

And  fought  the  fliades  renown'd  for  prophecy. 

Which  near  Albunea's  fulphurous  fountain  lie. 

To  thofe  the  Latian  and  the  Sabine  land  12^ 

Fly,  when  diftrefs'd,  and  thence  relief  demand. 

O  4  The 


soo  2)RYI>EN'S    VIRGIN; 

The  prieft  on  fkins  of  offerings  takes  his  eafej 

And  nightly  vifions  in  his  flumber  fees : 

A  fvvarm  of  thin  aerial  fhapes  appears. 

And,  fluttering  round  his  temples,  deafs  his  ears :     1 30 

Thefe  he  ccnfults,  the  future  fates  to  know. 

From  powers  above,  and  from  the  fiends  below. 

Here,  for  the  god's  advice,  Latinus  flies. 

Offering  a.  hundred  Iheep  for  facrifice : 

T'heir  woolly  fleeces,  as  the  rites  requir'd,  335 

He  laid  beneath  him,  and  to  reftretir'd. 

No  fooner  were  his  eyes  in  flumber  bound,. 

When,  from,  above,  a  more  than  mortal  found 

Inyades  his  ears :  and  -thus  the  vilion  fpoke : 

Seek  not,  ray  feed,  in  Latian  bands  to  yoke 

Our  fair  Lavinia,  nor  the  gods  provoke, 

A  foreign  fon  upon  the  fhore  defcends, 

Whofe  martial  fame  from  pole  to  pole  extends. 

His  race  in  arms,  and  arts  of  peace  renown'd, 

Not  Latium  fhail  contain,  nor  Europe  bound:    145 

^Tis  theirs  whate'er  the  fun  furveys  around. 

Thefe  anfwers  in  the  filent  night  receiv'd. 

The  king  himfelf  divulg'd,  the  land  believ'd: 

The  fame  through  all  the  neighbouring  nations  flew. 

When  now  the  Trojan  navy  was  in  view.  150 

Beneath  a  fhady  tree  the  hero  fpread 
His  table  on  the  turf,  with  cakes  of  bread; 
And,  with  his  chiefs,  on  foreft  fruits  he  fed. 
They  fate,  and  (not  without  the  god's  comm.and) 
Their  homely  fare  difpatch'd ;  the  hungry  band      1 53: 

Invade 


40  I 


} 


} 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Vrr.  3ot 

invade  their  trenchers  next,  and  foon  devour. 
To  mend  the  fcanty  meal,  their  cakes  of  flower. 
Afcanius  this  obferv'd,  and,  fmiling  faid. 
See,  we  devour  the  plates  on  which  we  fed. 
The  fpeech  had  omen,  that  the  Trojan  race  1 6o- 

Should  find  repofe,.  and  this  the  time  and  place» 
iEncas  took  the  word,  and  thus  replies; 
(Confeffing  fate  with  wonder  in.  his  eyes) 
All  hail,.  O  earth!  all  hail  my  houfhold  gods^ 
Behold  the  deflin'd  place  of  your  abodes!  i6c 

For  thus  Anchifes  prophefy'd  of  old,. 
And  this  our  fatal  place  of  reft  foretold. 
When  on  a  foreign  Ihore,  inftead  of  meat. 
By  famine  forc'd,  your  trenchers  you  (hall  eat. 
Then  eafe  your  weary  Trojans  will  attend:         i-jO' 
And  the  long  labours  of  your  voyage  end. 
Remember  on  that  happy  coaft  to  build  : 
And  with  a  trench  inclofe  the  fruitful  field," 
This  was  that  famine,  this  the  fatal  place. 
Which  ends  the  wandering  of  our  exil'd  race.         i-*? 
Then,  on  to-morrow's  dawn,  your  care  employ 
To  fearch  the  land,  and  where  the  cities  lie. 
And  what  the  men :  but  give  this  day  to  joy. 
Now  pour  to  Jove,  and  after  Jove  is  bleft. 
Call  great  Anchifes  to  the  genial  feaft;  183 

Crown  high  the  goblets  with  a  chearfal  draught; 
Enjoy  the  prefent  hour;  adjourn  the  future  thought. 

Thus  having  faid,  the  hero  bound  his  brows 
With  leafy  branches,  then  perform'd  his  vows :. 

Adoring 


1 


%oz  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Adoring  firft  the  genius  of  the  place,  tS^ 

Then  earth,  the  mother  of  the  heavenly  race; 

The  nymphs,  and  native  godheads  yet  unknown. 

And  night,  and  all  the  liars  that  gild  her  fable  throne: 

And  ancient  Cybel,  and  Idsan  Jove; 

And  laft  his  fire  below,  and  mother  queen  above.   190 

Then  heaven's  high  monarch  thunder'd  thrice  aloud; 
And  thrice  he  Ihook  aloft  a  golden  cloud. 
Soon  through  the  joyful  camp  a  rumour  flew : 
The  time  was  come  their  city  to  renew ; 
Then  every  brow  with  chearful  green  is  crown'd,  1 95 
The  feafls  are  doubled,  and  the  bowls  go  round. 

When  next  the  rofy  morn  difclos'd  the  day. 
The  fcouts  to  feveral  parts  divide  their  way. 
To  learn  the  natives  names,  their  towns,  explore 
The  coail,  and  trendings  of  the  crooked  fhore :      200 
Here  Tiber  flows,  and  here  Numicus  ftands. 
Here  warlike  Latins  hold  the  happy  lands. 

The  pious  chief,  who  fought  by  peaceful  ways 
To  found  his  empire,  and  his  town  to  raife, 
A  hundred  youths  from  all  his  train  feletfls,  20^ 

And  to  the  Latian  court  their  courfe  direds 
(The  fpacious  palace  where  the  prince  refides) : 
And  all  their  heads  with  wreaths  of  olives  hides. 
They  go  commiffion'd  to  require  a  peace; 
And  carry  prefents  to  procure  accefs.  2 1 6 

Thus  while  they  fpeed  their  pace,  the  prince  defigns 
The  new-elecled  feat,  and  draws  the  lines : 
The  Trojans  round  the  place  a  rampart  call. 
And  palifades  about  the  trenches  plac'd. 

Mean 


iE  N  E  T  S.      B  O  O  K    yrr.  tos 

Mean  time  the  train,  proceeding  on  their  way,  215 
From  far  the  town»  and  lofty  towers  furvey : 
At  length  approach  the  walls :  without  the  gate 
They  fee  the  boys  and  Latian  youth  J.ebate 
The  martial  prizes  on  the  dully  plain : 
Some  drive  the  cars,  and  fome  the  courfers  rein;    220 
Some  bend  the  ftubbom  bough  for  viftory ; 
And  fome  with  darts  their  adlive  fmews  try* 
A  pofting  meiTenger  difpatch'd  from  hence. 
Of  this  fair  troop,  advis'd  their  aged  prince; 
That  foreign  men,  of  mighty  ftature,  came;         22? 
Uncouth  their  habit,  and  unknown  their  name. 
The  king  ordains  their  entrance,  and  afcends 
His  regal  feat,  furrounded  by  his  friends. 
The  palace  built  by  Picus,  vaft  and  proud. 
Supported  by  a  hundred  pillars  flood!  230 

And  round  encompafs'd  with  a  rifing  wood. 
The  pile  o'erlook'd  the  town,  and  drew  the  fight, 
Surpriz'd  at  once  with  reverence  and  delight. 
There  kings  receiv'd  the  marks  of  fovereign  power: 
In  Hate  the  monarch  march'd,  the  liftors  bore    235 
Their  awful  axes,  and  the  rods  before. 
Here  the  tribunal  flood,  the  houfe  of  prayer^ 
And  here  the  facred  fenators  repair; 
All  at  large  tables,  in  long  order  {^tj 
A  ram  their  offering,  and  a  ram  their  meat#  240 

Above  the  portal,  carv'd  in  cedar  wood, 
Plac'd  in  their  ranks,  their  godlike  grandfires  flood. 
Old  Saturn,  with  his  crooked  fey  the,  on  high; 
And  Italus,  that  led  the  colony ; 

And 


} 


I 


20^  DRYDEN'^S    VIRGIE. 

And  ancient  Janus,  with  his  double  face,  2J^^ 

And  bunch  of  keys,  the  porter  of  the  place. 
There  ftood  Sabinus,  planter  of  the  vines ;  "| 

On  a  fhort  pruning-hook  his  head  reclines :  > 

And  ftudioufly  furveys  his  generous  wines.  J 

Then  warlike  kings,,  who  for  their  country  fought. 
And  honourable  wounds  from  battle  brought. 
Around  the  pofts  hung  helmets,  darts,  and  fpears. 
And  captive  chariots,  axes,  Ihields,  and  bars. 
And  broken  beaks  of  ftiips,  the  trophies  of  their 

wars,. 
Above  the  reft,  as  chief  of  all  the  band.  255 

Was  Picus  plac'd,  a  buckler  in  his  hand ; 
His  other  wav*d  a  long-divining;  wand. 
Girt  in  his  gabin  gown  the  hero  fate : 
Yet  could  not  with  his  art  avoid  his  fate. 
For  Circe  long  had  lov'd  the  youth  in  vain,  260 

Till  love,  refus'd,  converted  to  difdain: 
Then  mixing  powerful  herbs,.,  with  magic  art. 
She  chang'd  his  form,  who  could  not  change  his  heart, 
Conftrain'd  him  in  a  bird,  and  made  him  fiy 
With  party-colour'd  plumes,  a  chattering-pye.       26^ 
In  this  high  temple,  on  a  chair  of  {late. 
The  feat  of  audience,  old  Latinus  fate ; 
Then  gave  admiiTion  to  the  Troj^in  train,, 
And  thus,  with  pleanng  accents,  he  began: 
Tell  me,  ye  Trojans,  for  that  name  you  own;        270 
Nor  is  your  courfe  upon  our  coafts  unknown ; 
Say  what  you  feek,  and  whither  were  you  bound  ? 
Were  you  by  ftrefs  of  weather  caft  a-ground  I 

Such 


J^NEIS.     BOOK    Vn.  9a$ 

Such  dangers  of  the  fea  are  often  feen, 

And  oft  befal  to  miferable  men.  27^ 

Or  come,  your  iliipping  in  our  ports  to  lay. 

Spent  and  difcbled  in  fo  long  a  way  ? 

Say  what  you  v/ant ;  the  Latians  you  fhall  ^.nd 

Not  forc'd  to  goodnefs,  but  by  will  inclin'd; 

Fcr  fince  the  time  of  Saturn's  holy  reign,  280 

His  hofpitable  cuftonis  we  retain. 

I: call  to  mind  (but  time  the  tale  has  worn) 

Th'  Arunci  told ;  that  Dardanus,  though  born 

Qn  Latian  plains,  yet  fought. the  Phrygian  fhore. 

And  Samothracia,  Samos  call'd  before:  28^ 

From  Tufcan  Coritum  he  claim'd  his  birth. 

But  after,  -when  exempt  from  mortal  earth. 

From  thence  afcended  to  his  kindred  ikies, 

A  god,  and  as  a  god  augments  their  facriiice* 

'He  faid.     Ilioneus  made  this  feply: 

O  king,  of  Faunus'  royal  family!  29O 

Kor  wintery  winds  to  Latium  forc'd  our  way. 

Nor  did  the  ftars  our  wandering  courfe  betray. 

Willing  we  fought  your  fliores,  and  hither  bound, 

The  port  fo  long  defir'd,  at  length  we  found,         295 

From  our  fweet  homes  and  ancient  realms  expell*d; 

Great  as  the  greateft  that  the  fun  beheld. 

The  god  began  our  line,  who  rules  above. 

And  as  our  race,  our  king  defcends  from  Jove: 

-And  hither  are  we  come,  by  his  command,  3 00 

To  crave  admiffion  in  your  happy  land. 

How  dire  a  tempeft,  from  Mycenae  pour'd, 

Our  plains,  our  temples,  and  our  town  devoujr'd; 

Wiiat 


} 


«o«  DRYDEN'S   VIRGIL. 

What  was  the  wafte  of  war,  what  dire  alarms 

Shook  Afia's  crown  with  European  arms;  305 

Ev'n  fuch  have  heard,  if  any  fuch  there  be, 

Whofe  earth  is  bounded  by  the  frozen  fea : 

And  fuch  as  born  beneath  the  burning  fky. 

And  fultry  fun  betwixt  the  tropics  lie. 

From  that  dire  deluge,  through  the  watery  wafte,  3 1  © 

Such  length  of  years,  fuch  various  perils  paft: 

At  laft  efcap'd,  to  Latium  we  repair. 

To  beg  what  you  without  your  want  may  fpare; 

The  common  water,  and  the  common  air. 

Sheds  which  ourfelves  will  build,  and  mean  abodes. 

Fit  to  receive  and  ferve  our  baniih'd  gods. 

Nor  our  admiflion  fhall  your  realm  difgrace. 

Nor  length  of  time  our  gratitude  efface. 

Befides  what  endlefs  honour  you  fhall  gain 

To  fave  and  Ihelter  Troy's  unhappy  train.  3 20 

Now,  by  my  fovereign,  and  his  fate,  I  fwear, 

Renown'd  for  faith  in  peace,  for  force  in  war; 

Oft  our  alliance  other  lands  defir'd. 

And  what  we  feek  of  you,  of  us  requir'd, 

Defpife  not  then,  that  in  our  hands  we  bear  32 j 

Thefe  holy  boughs,  and  fue  with  words  of  prayer. 

Fate  and  the  gods,  by  their  fupreme  command. 

Have  doom'd  our  fhips  to  feek  the  Latian  land. 

To  thefe  abodes  our  fleet  Apollo  fends; 

Here  Dardanus  was  born,  and  hither  tends.  230 

Where  Thufcan  Tiber  rolls  with  rapid  force. 

And  where  Numicus  opes  his  holy  fourcet 

Eefidejj 


J^NEIS.     BOOK    VII.  soy 

Befides,  our  prince  prefents,  with  his  requefl. 

Some  fmall  remains  of  what  his  fire  polTefs'd, 

This  golden  charger,  fnatch'd  from  burning  Troy, 

Anchifes  did  in  facrifice  employ; 

This  royal  robe^  and  this  tiara  wore 

Old  Priam,  and  this  golden  fceptre  bore 

In  full  alTemblies,  and  in  folemn  games; 

Thefe  purple  vefts  were  weav'd  by  Dardan  dames.  340 

Thus  while  he  fpoke,  Latinus  roird  around 
His  eyea,  and  fix'd  awhile  upon  the  ground. 
Intent  he  feem'd,  and  anxious  in  his  breafr; 
Not  by  the  fceptre  mov'd,  or  kingly  veil : 
But  pondering  future  things  of  wondrous  weight :  34^; 
Succeffion,  empire,  and  his  daughter's  fate : 
On  thefe  he  mus'd  within  his  thoughtful  mind; 
And  then  refolv'd  what  Faunus  had  divin'd. 
This  was  the  foreign  prince,  by  fate  decreed 
To  (hare  his  fceptre,  and  Lavinia's  bed,  35© 

This  was  the  race  that  fure  portents  forefhew 
To  (wSiy  the  world,  and  land  and  fea  fubdue. 
At  length  he  rais'd  his  chearful  head  and  fpoke: 
The  powers,  faid  he,  the  powers  we  both  invoke. 
To  you,  and  yours,  and  mine,  propitious  be,        35*3; 
And  firm  our  purpofe  with  their  augury. 
Have  what  you  aflc :  your  prefents  I  receive ; 
Land  where,  and  when  you  pleafe,  with  ample  leave; 
Partake  and  ufe  ray  kingdom  as  your  own ; 
It  ihall  be  yours,  while  I  command  the  crown.       360 
And  if  my  wifh'd  alliance  pleafe  your  king, 
V^dl  him  he  fliould  not  fend  the  peace,  but  bring : 

i  TheE 


4^  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL, 

Then  let  him  not  a  friend's  embraces  fear; 

The  peace  is  made  when  I  behold  him  here. 

Befides  this  anfwer,  tell  my  royal  gueft,  365 

1  add  to  his  commands  my  own  requeft : 

One  only  daughter  heirs  my  crown  and  ftate. 

Whom,  not  our  oracles,  nor  heaven,  nor  fate, 

Kor  frequent  prodigies,  permit  to  join 

«^ith  any  native  of  th'  Aufonian  line,  ^-^c 

A  foreign  fon-in-law  fhall  come  from  far 

.^Such  is  our  doom),  a  chief  renown'd  in  war: 

Whofe  race  fhall  bear  aloft  the  Latian  name. 

And  through  the  conquer'd  world  diiiufe  our  fame. 

Himfelf  to  be  the  man  the  fates  require,  37^ 

I  firmly  judge,  and  what  I  judge,  defire. 

He  faid,  and  then  on  each  beftow'd  a  Heed; 

Three  hundred  horfes,  in  high  ftables  fed. 

Stood  ready,  fnining  all,  and  fmoothly  drefs'd. 

Of  thefe  he  chofe  the  faireft  and  the  beft,  380 

To  mount  the  Trojan  troop;  at  his  command. 

The  fteeds  caparifon'd  with  -purple  Hand  : 

With  golden  trappings,  glorious  to  behold. 

And  champ,  betwixt  their  teeth,  the  foaming  gold. 

Then  to  his  abfent  gueft  the  king  decreed  385 

A  pair  of  courfers  born  of  heavenly  breed : 

Who  from  their  noftrils  breath'd  ethereal  fire 3 

W^hom  Circe  ftole  from  her  celeftial  firej 

By  fubftituting  mares,  produc'd  on  earth, 

■WJiofe  wombs  conceiv'd  a  more  than  mortal  birth, 

Thefe  draw  the  chariot  which  Latinus  fends ;         39a 

^jid  the  rich  prefent  to  the  prince  commends. 

Sublime 


] 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Vir,  J09 

Sublime  on  ftately  fteeds  the  Trojans  borne. 
To  their  expelling  lord  with  peace  return. 

But  jealous  Juno,  from  Pachymus'  height,      395 
As  (he  from  Argos  took  her  airy  flight. 
Beheld,  with  envious  eyes,  this  hateful  fight. 
She  faw  the  Trojan  and  his  joyful  train 
Defcend  upon  the  fhore,  defert  the  main! 
Defign  a  town,  and,  with  unhop'd  fuccefs,  40a 

Th'  embaifadors  return  with  promis'd  peace. 
Then,  pierc*d  with  pain,  fhe  fhook  her  haughty  head, 
Sigh'd  from  her  inward  foul,- and  thus  (he  faid: 
O  hated  offspring  of  my  Phrygian  foes ! 

0  fate  of  Troy,  which  Juno's  fates  oppofe!  _         405 
Could  they  not  fall  unpity'd,  on  the  plain. 

But  flain  revive,  and  taken,  'fcape  again  ? 

When  execrable  Troy  in  afnes  lay. 

Through  fires,  and  fwords,  and  feas,  they  forc'd  their 

way. 
Then  vanquilh'd  Juno  mufl  in  vain  contend,  413 

Her  rage  difarm'd,  her  empire  at  an  end. 
Breathlefs  and  tir'd,  is  all  my  fury  fpent. 
Or  does  my  glutted  fpleen  at  length  relent  ? 
As  if  'twere  little  from  their  town  to  chace, 

1  through  the  feas  purfued  their  exil'd  race:  41^ 
Engag'd  the  heavens,  oppos'd  the  ftormy  main; 

But  billows  roar'd,  and  tempefts  rag'd  in  vain. 
What  have  my  Scylla's  and  my  Syrtes  done, 
WTien  thefe  they  overpafs,  and  thofe  they  fhun? 
On  Tiber's  ftiores  they  land,  fecure  of  fate,  420 

Triumphant  o'er  the  ftorm's  and  Juno's  hate. 

Vol.  XXIII.  P  Mars 


tm  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL/ 

Mars  could  in  mutual  blood  the  centaurs  bathe,  "* 

And  Jove  himfelf  gave  way  to  Cynthia's  wrath : 

Who  fent  the  tufky  boar  to  Calydon : 

What  great  offence  had  either  people  done?  42 j; 

But  I,  the  confort  of  the  thunderer. 

Have  wag'd  a  long  and  unfuccefsful  war: 

W^ith  various  arts  and  arms  in  vain  have  toil'd. 

And  by  a  mortal  man  at  length  am  foil'd. 

If  native  power  prevail  not,  Ihall  I  doubt  430 

To  feek  for  needful  fuccour  from  without? 

If  Jove  and  heaven  my  juft  defires  deny. 

Hell  fhall  the  power  of  Heaven  and  Jove  fupply. 

Grant  that  the  fates  have  firm'd  by  their  decree. 

The  Trojan  race  to  reign  in  Italy:  435 

At  leaft  I  can  defer  the  nuptial  day. 

And,  with  protraded  wars,  the  peace  delay: 

With  blood  the  dear  alliance  fhall  be  bought; 

And  both  the  people  near  defirudion  brought. 

So  fhall  the  fon-in-law  and  father  join,  440 

With  ruin,  war,  and  wafte  of  either  line. 

O  fatal  maid !  thy  marriage  is  endow'd 

With  Phrygian,  Latian,  and  Rutilian  blood! 

Bellona  leads  thee  to  thy  lover's  hand,  "t 

Another  queen  brings  forth  another  brand;         445  !> 

To  burn  with  foreio-n  fires  her  native  land!  J 

A  fecond  Paris,  differing  but  in  name. 

Shall  fire  his  country  with  a  fecond  flame. 

Thus  having  faid,  fhe  finks  beneath  the  ground 
With  furious  hafie,  and  llioots  the  Stygian  found; 

To 


:ffiNEIS.      BOOK     VII.  zit 

To  fouze  Ale(5lo  from  th'  infernal  feat 

Of  her  dire  fillers,  and  their  dark  retreat. 

Tliis  fury  fit  for  her  intent  flie  chofe. 

One  who  delights  in  wars,  and  human  woes, 

Ev'n  Pluto  hates  his  own  mif-fhspen  race  45 j; 

Ker  fifter- furies  fly  her  hideous  face : 

So  frightful  are  the  forms  the  monfter  takes. 

So  fierce  the  hiffings  of  her  fpeckled  fnakcs. 

Her  Juno  finds,  and  thus  inflames  her  fpite: 

O  virgin  daughter  of  eternal  night,  460 

Give  me  this  once  thy  labour,  to  fuftain 

My  right,  and  execute  my  juft  difdain. 

Let  not  the  Trojans,  with  a  feign'd  pretence 

Of  proffer'd  peace,  delude  the  Latian  prince: 

Expel  from  Italy  that  odious  name,  4^5- 

And  let  not  Juno  fufFer  in  her  fame. 

'Tis  thine  to  ruin  realms,  o'erturn  a  ftate. 

Betwixt  the  dearefl  friends  to  raife  debate. 

And  kindle  kindred  blood  to  mutual  hate. 

Thy  hand  o'er  towns  the  funeral  torch  difplays,     470 

And  forms  a  thoufand  ills  ten  thoufand  ways. 

Now  fhake  from  out  thy  fruitful  breaft  the  feeds 

Of  envy,  difcord,  and  of  cruel  deeds : 

Confound  the  peace  eftablifh'd,  and  prepare 

Their  fouls  to  hatred,  and  their  hands  to  war.        47^ 

Ssaear'd  as  ftie  was  with  black  Gorgonean  blood. 

The  fury  fprang  above  the  Stygian  flood : 

And  on  her  wicker  wings,  fublime  through  night. 

She  to  the  Latian  palace  took  her  flight* 

P  2  There 


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212  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

There  fought  the  queen's  apartments,  ftood  before 
The  peaceful  threfhold,  and  befieg'd  the  door. 
Reftlefs  Amata  lay,  her  fwelling  breaft  T 

Fir'd  with  difdain  for  Turnus  difpoffeft,  V- 

And  the  new  nuptials  of  the  Trojan  gueft.  J 

From  her  black,  bloody  locks  the  fury  fhakes  48^ 

Her  darling  plague,  the  favourite  of  her  fnakes: 
With  her  full  force  fhe  threw  the  poifonous  dart. 
And  fix'd  it  deep  within  Amata's  heart: 
That  thus  envenom "d  ihe  might  kindle  rage. 
And  facrifice  to  ftrife  her  houfe  and  hulband's  age, 

Unfeen,  unfelt,  the  fiery  ferpent  fkims 

Betwixt  her  linen,  and  her  naked  limbs. 

His  baleful  breath  infpiring  as  he  glides. 

Now  like  a  chain  around  her  neck  he  rides; 

Kow  like  a  fillet  to  her  head  repairs,  49j; 

And,  with  her  circling  volumes,  folds  her  hairs. 

A.t  firft  the  filent  venom  Aid  with  eafe. 

And  feiz'd  her  cooler  fenfes  by  degrees; 

Then,  ere  th'  infefted  mafs  was  fir'd  too  far. 

In  plaintive  accents  fhe  began  the  war:  5C0 

And  thus  befpoke  her  huiband :    Shall,  fhe  faid, 

A  wandering  prince  enjoy  Lavinia's  bed? 

If  nature  plead  not  in  a  parent's  heart. 

Pity  my  tears,  and  piiy  her  defert: 

I  know,  my  deareft  lord,  the  time  will  come,         505" 

You  v/ould,  in  vain,  reverfe  your  cruel  doom : 

The  faithlefs  pirate  foon  v.'ill  fet  to  fea. 

And  bear  the  royal  virgin  far  away] 

A  guefl 


} 


iENEIS.     BOOK    Vir.  »i3 

A  guefl  like  him,  a  Trojan  gueft  before. 

In  Ihew  of  friendfhip,  fought  the  Spartan  (hore; 

And  ravifh'd  Helen  from  her  hufband  bore. 

Think  on  a  king's  inviolable  word : 

And  think  on  Turnus,  her  once-plighted  lord: 

To  this  falfe  foreigner  you  give  your  throne. 

And  vi^rong  a  friend,  a  kinfman,  and  a  fon.  51  j; 

Refume  your  ancient  care;  and  if  the  god. 

Your  lire,  and  you,  refolve  on  foreign  blood. 

Know  all  are  foreign,  in  a  larger  fenfe. 

Not  bom  your  fubjeds,  or  deriv'd  from  hence. 

Then  if  the  line  of  Turnus  you  retrace;  520 

He  fprings  from  Inachus  of  Argive  race. 

But  when  fhe  faw  her  reafon  illy  fpent. 

And  could  not  move  him  from  his  fix'd  intent. 

She  flew  to  rage;  for  now  the  fnake  poffefs'd 

Her  vital  parts,  and  poifond  all  her  breaft;  525 

She  raves,  (he  runs,  with  a  difliraded  pace. 

And  fills  with  horrid  howls  the  publ'c  place. 

And,  as  young  ftriplings  whip  the  top  for  fport. 

On  the  fmooth  pavement  of  an  empty  court. 

The  wooden  engine  flies  and  whirls  about,  r^o 

Admir'd,   with  clamours,  of  the  beardlefs  rout. 

They  lafli  aloud,  each  other  they  provoke. 

And  lend  their  little  fouls  at  every  fcroke : 

Thus  fares  the  queen,  and  thus  her  fur}'  blows 

Amidft  the  crowds,  and  kindles  as  fhe  goes.  ^^^ 

Kot  yet  content,  fhe  ftrains  her  malice  more. 

And  adds  new  ills  to  thofe  contriv'd  before: 

P  3  She 


ztj^.  DR  YD  EN'S      VIRGIL* 

She  flies  the  town,  and,  mixing  with  die  throng 
Of  madding  matrons,  bears  the  bride  along; 
Wandering   through  woods  and  wilds,  and   deviotia 
ways,  540 

And  with  thefe  arts  the  Trojan  match  delays^ 
She  feign'd  the  rites  of  Bacchus !  cry'd  aloud, 
And  to  the  buxom  god  the  virgin  ^'ow'd, 
Evoe,  O  Bacchus!  thus  began  the  fong. 
And  Evoe!  anfwer'd  all  the  female  throng:  34^ 

O  virgin!  worthy  thee  alone,  flie  cry'd; 
O  worthy  thee  alone,  the  crew  reply'd; 
For  thee  (he  feeds  her  hair,  fhe  leads  thy  dance. 
And  with  the  winding  ivy  wreaths  her  lance. 
Like  fury  feiz'd  the  reft ;  the  progrefs  known,         55'a 
All  feek  the  mountains  and  forfake  the  town : 
All  clad  in  Ikins  of  beads  the  javelin  bare. 
Give  to  tlie  wanton  winds  their  flowing  hair; 
And  Ihrieks  and  Ihoutings  rend  the  fuffering  air. 
The  queen,  herfelf,  infpir'd  with  rage  divine,         53  j^ 
Shook  high  above  her  head  a  flaming  pine : 
Then  roll'd  her  haggard  eyes  around  the  throng. 
And  fung,  in  Turnus*  name,  the  nuptial  fong ! 
li)  ye  Latian  dames,  if  any  here 
Hold  your  unhappy  queen,  Amata,  dear;  560 

If  there  be  here,  Ihe  faid,  who  dare  maintain 
My  right,  nor  think  the  name  of  mother  vain. 
Unbind  your  fillets,  loofe  your  flowing  hair. 
And  orgies  and  nocturnal  rites  prepare, 
Amata's  breaft  the  fury  thus  invades,  565 


1 


And  fires  with  rage,  amid  the  fylvan  fliades. 


Then 


,.} 


^NEIS.      BOOK    Vir,  ti| 

Tl^en  when  Ihe  found  her  venom  fpread  fo  far. 

The  royal  houfe  embroird  in  civil  war, 

Kais'd  on  her  dufky  wings  fhe  cleaves  the  Ikies, 

And  feeks  the  palace  where  young  Turnus  lies.       570 

His  town,  as  fame  reports,  was  built  of  old 

By  Danae,  pregnant  with  almighty  gold: 

Who  fled  her  father's  rage,  and  with  a  train 

Of  following  Argives,  through  the  ftormy  main, 

Driv'n  by  the  fouthern  blafls,  was  fated  here  to  reign 

'Twas  Ardua  once,  now  Ardea's  name  it  bears 
Once  a  fair  city,  now  confum'd  with  years. 
Here  in  his  lofty  palace  Turnus  lay, 
Betwixt  the  confines  of  the  night  and  day. 
Secure  in  lleep:  the  fury  laid  afide  ^"80 

Her  looks  and  limbs,  and  with  new  methods  try'd 
The  foulnefs  of  the  infernal  form  to  liide, 
Propp'd  on  a  ilafF,  fhe  takes  the  trembling  mien. 
Her  face  is  furrow'd,  and  her  front  obfcenc: 
Deep-dinted  wrinkles  on  her  cheek  Ihe  draws,         58^ 
.Sunk  are  her  eyes,  and  toothlefs  are  her  jaws: 
"Jier  hoary  hair  with  holy  fillets  bound. 
Her  temples  with  an  olive  wreath  are  crown'd. 
Old  Calibe,  who  kept  the  facred  fane  -v 

Of  Juno,  now  fhe  feem'd,  and  thus  began:        590  l 
.Appearing  in  a  dream,  to  rouze  the  carelefs  man.     J 
Shall  Turnus  then  fuch  endlefs  toil  fuftain. 
In  fighting  fields,  and  conquer  towns  in  vain  ? 
Win,  for  a  Trojan  head  to  wear  the  prize? 
Ufurp  thy  crown,  enjoy  thy  vi(flories  ?  595 

P  4  .  The 


} 


»i6  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

The  bride  and  fceptre  which  thy  blood  has  bonghta 
The  king  transfers,  and  foreign  heirs  are  fought ; 
Go  now,  deluded  man,  and  feek  again 
New  toils,  new  dangers,  on  the  dully  plain. 
Repel  the  Tufcan  foes,  their  city  feize;  60© 

Proted  the  Latians  in  luxurious  eafe. 
This  dream  all-powerful  Juno  fends;  I  bear 
Her  mighty  mandates,  and  her  words  you  hear, 
Hafte,  arm  your  Ardeans,  iflue  to  the  plain. 
With  faith  to  friend,  affault  the  Trojan  train :        605^ 
Their  thoughtlefs  chiefs,  their  painted  Ihips  that  lie 
In  Tiber's  mouth,  with  lire  and  fword  deftroy. 
The  Latian  king,  unlefs  he  Ihall  fubmit. 
Own  his  old  promife,  and  his  new  forget; 
Let  him,  in  arms,  the  power  of  Turnus  prove,       610 
And  learn  to  fear  whom  he  difdains  to  love. 
For  fuch  is  heaven's  command.     The  youthful  prince 
With  fcorn  reply'd ;  and  made  this  bold  defence : 
You  tell  me,  mother,  what  I  knew  before; 
The  Phr)''gian  fleet  is  landed  on  the  fhore:  615^ 

I  neither  fear,  nor  will  provoke,  the  v/ar; 
My  fate  is  Juno^s  moll  peculiar  care, 
But  time  has  made  you  dote,  and  vainly  tell 
Of  arms  imagined,  in  your  lonely  cell : 
Go,  be  the  temple  and  the  gods  your  care;  62:9- 

Perm.it  the  men  the  thought  of  peace  and  vrar. 
Thefe  haughty  words  Aleclo's  rage  provoke. 
And  frighted  Turnus  trembled  as  fhe  fpoke. 
Her  eyes  grew  ftifFen'd  and  with  fulphur  burn, 
'ler  hideous  looks,  and  heliilh  form  return  ;  625- 

I  Her 


JENEIS.     BOOK    vn.  ^,7 

Her  curling  fnakes  with  hiffmgs  fill  the  place. 

And  open  all  the  furies  of  her  face! 

Then,  darting  fire  from  her  malignant  eyes,  *| 

She  call  him  backward  as  he  ftrove  to  rife,  I 

And,  lingering,^  fought  to  frame  fome  new  replies,   J 

High  on  her  head  Ihe  rears  two  twilled  fnakes ;  "» 

Her  chain  Ihe  rattles,  and  lier  whip  ihe  Ihakes ;  I 

And,  churning  bloody  foam,  thus  loudly  fpeaks:     J 

Behold  whom  time  has  made  to  dote,  and  teU 

Of  arras,  imagin'd  in  her  lonely  cell;  C$t 

Behold  the  fates'  infernal  minifter; 

War,  death,  deflruclion,  in  my  hand  I  bear. 

Thus  having  faid,  her  fmouldering  torch  imprefs'd 
With  her  full  force,  Ihe  plung'd  into  his  breafl, 
Aghail  he  wak'd,  and,  llarting  from  his  bed,.         640 
Cold  fweat,  in  clammy  drops,  his  limbs  o'erfpread ; 
Arms,  arms,  he  cries,  my  fword  and  Ihleld  prepare; 
He  breathes  defiance,  blood,  and  mortal  war. 
So  when  with  crackling  flames  a  cauldron  fries. 
The  bubbling  waters  from  the  bottom  rife ;  64c 

Above  their  brims  they  force  their  fiery  way; 
Black  vapours  climb  aloft,  and  cloud  the  day. 

The  peace  polluted  thus,  a  chofen  band 
He  firfl  commiffions  to  the  Latlan  land. 
In  threatening  embaffy:  then  rais'd  the  red,  65  c> 

To  meet  in  arms  th'  intruding  Trojan  guell : 
To  force  the  foes  from  the  La\  inian  fhore. 
And  Italy's  endangered  peace  reftore; 
Himfelf  alone,  an  equal  match  he  boafts. 
To  fight  the  Phrygiaii  aiid  Aufonian  holls»  63-j 

The 


,aa  DRYDEN'S    VIRGrt., 

The  god^  invok'd,  the  Rutili  prepare 
Their  arms,  and  warm  each  other  to  the  war. 
His  beauty  thefe,  and  thofe  his  blooming  age. 
The  reft  his  houfe,  and  his  own  fame  engage. 

While  Turnus  urges  thus  his  enterprize,  660 

The  Stygian  fury  to  the  Trojans  flies: 
New  frauds  invents,  and  takes  a  fieepy  ftand. 
Which  overlooks  the  vale  with  wide  command ; 
Where  fair  Afcanius  and  his  youthful  train,  l 

■With  horns  and  hounds,  a  hunting  match  ordain,      > 
And  pitch  their  toils  around  the  fnady  plain.  J 

The  fury  fires  the  pack;   they  fnufF,  they  vent. 
And  feed  their  hungr}'  noftrils  v.ith  the  fcent. 
'Twas  of  a  well-grown  flag,  whofe  antlers  rife 
High  o'er  his  front,  his  beams  invade  the  fkies :     670 
From  this  light  caufe,  th'  infernal  maid  prepares 
The  country  churls  to  mifchief,  hate,  and  wars. 

The  ftately  beafl,  the  tv»-o  Tyrrhedae  bred, 
Snatch'd  from  his  dam,  and  the  tame  youngling  fed. 
Their  father  Tyrrheus  did  their  fodder  bring;        6'^ 
Tyrrheus  chief  ranger  to  the  Latian  king : 
Their  filler  Sylvia  cherifh'd  with  her  care 
The  little  wanton,  and  did  wreaths  prepare 
To  hang  his  budding  horns :  Vvdth  ribbons  ty'd 
^His  tender  neck,  and  comb'd  his  fiLken  hide;  6Sa 

And  bath'd  his  body.     Patient  of  command. 
In  time  he  grew,  and  growing  us'd  to  hand. 
He  waited  at  his  mailer's  board  for  food; 
Then  fought  his  favage  kindred  in  the  vrood : 

Wher?, 


iENEIS.      BOOK    VTT,  *r^ 

Where,  gazing  all  the  day,  at  night  he  came  685 

To  his  known  lodgings,  and  his  country  dame. 

This  houlhold  beaft,  that  us'd  the  woodland  grounds. 
Was  view'd  at  firft  by  the  young  hero's  hounds; 
As  down  the  ftream  he  Iwam,  to  leek  retreat 
In  the  cool  waters,  and  to  quench  his  heat,  690 

Afcanius,  young,  and  eager  of  his  game. 
Soon  bent  his  bow,  uncertain  in  his  aim : 
But  the  dire  fiend  the  fatal  arrow  guides. 
Which  pierc'd  his  bowels  through  hie  panting  fides. 
The  bleeding  creature  ifTues  from  the  floods,       695  T 
Pofiefs'd  with  fear,  and  feeks  his  known  abodes ;         > 
His  old.  familiar  hearth,  and  houfhold  gods.  J 

He  falls,  he  fills  the  houfe  with  heavy  groans ; 
Implores  their  pity,  and  his  pain  bemoans. 
-Young  Sylvia  beats  her  breaft,  and  cries  aloud.        700 
Tor  fuccour  from  the  clownifh  neighbourhood: 
The  churls  afTemble;  for  the  fiend  who  lay 
In  the  clofe  woody  covert  urg'd  their  way. 
One  with  a  brand,  yet  burning  from  the  flame; 
Arm'd  with  a  knotty  club,  another  came:  70^ 

Whate'er  they  catch  or  find,  without  their  care. 
Their  fury  makes  an  inftrument  of  war. 
Tyrrheus,  the  fofler-father  of  the  beafl. 
Then  clench'd  a  hatchet  in  his  horny  fift : 
Eut  held  his  hand  from  the  defcending  ftroke,     7iC'i 
And  left  his  wedge  within  the  cloven  oak,  l 

To  whet  their  courage,  and  their  rage  provoke,        J 
And  now  the  goddefs,  exercis'd  in  ill. 
Who  watch'd  an  hour  to  work  her  impious  will, 

Afcends 


tto  BRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Afcends  the  roof,  and  to  her  crooked  horn,  71^ 

Such  as  was  then  by  Latian  fhepherds  borne. 
Adds  all  her  breath;  the  rocks  and  woods  around. 
And  mountains,  tremble  at  th'  infernal  found. 
The  facred  lake  of  Trivia  from  afar,  ^ 

The  Veline  fountains,  and  fulphureous  Nar,      720  >» 
Shake  at  the  baleful  blaft,  the  fignal  of  the  war.         J 
Young  mothers  wildly  ftare,  with  fear  pofTefs'd, 
And  drain  their  helplefs  infants  to  their  bread. 

The  clowns,  a  boiderous,  rude,  ungovern'd  crew. 
With  furious  hade  to  the  loud  fummons  flew.         725 
The  powers  of  Troy,  then  iffuing  on  the  plain. 
With  frefli  recruits  their  youthful  chief  fudain : 
Nor  theirs  a  raw  and  unexperienc'd  train. 
But  a  firm  body  of  embattled  men. 
At  fird,  while  fortune  favour'd  neither  fide,  730 

The  fight  with  clubs  and  burning  brands  was  try'd : 
But  now,  both  parties  reinforc'd,  the  fields 
Are  bri2;ht  with  flamins^  fwords  and  brazen  diields. 
A  Ihining  har\'ed  either  hod  difplays. 
And  fnoots  againd  the  fun  with  equal  rays.  75^ 

Thus  when  a  black-brow'd  gud  begins  to  rife,       i 
WTiite  foam  at  fird  on  the  curVd  ocean  fries;  y 

Then  roars  the  main,  the  billows  mount  the  fiiies:   J 
Til],  by  the  fury  of  the  dorm  full  blown, 
Tiie  muddy  bottom  o'er  the  clouds  is  thrown.        74.0 

Fird  Almon  falls,  old  Tyrrheus'  elded  care, 
Pierc'd  with  an  arrow  from  the  didant  war: 
Fix'd  in  his  throat  the  dying  weapon  dood. 
And  dop'd  his  breadi,  and  drank  his  vital  blood. 

Huge 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Vir.  izi 

Huge  heaps  of  flain  around  the  body  rife;  74^ 

Among  the  reft,  the  rich  Galefus  lies: 

A  good  old  man,  while  peace  he  preach'd  in  vain, 

Amidft  the  madnefs  of  th'  unruly  train : 

Five  herds,  five  bleating  fiocks,  his  paftures  fill'd; 

His  lands  a  hundred  yoke  c^  oxen  till'd.  750 

Thus,  while  in  equal  fcales  their  fortune  flood. 

The  fury  bath'd  them  in  each  other's  blood. 

Then,  having  fix'd  the  fight,  exulting  flies. 

And  bears  fulfilled  her  promife  to  the  Ikies, 

To  Juno  thus  {he  fpeak«:  Behold,  'tis  done;  ij^^ 

The  blood  already  drawn,  the  war  begun; 

The  difcord  is  complete,  nor  can  they  ceafe 

The  dire  debate,  nor  you  command  the  peace. 

Now  fince  the  Latian  and  the  Trojan  brood 

Have  tafled  vengeance,  and  the  fweets  of  blood,    760 

Speak,  and  my  power  ihall  add  this  office  more; 

The  neighbouring  nations  of  th'  Aufonian  fhore 

Shall  hear  the  dreadful  rumour  from  afar. 

Of  arm'd  invafion,  and  embrace  the  war. 

Then  Juno  thus :  The  grateful  work  is  done;         7^^ 

The  feeds  of  difcord  fow'd,  the  war  begun ; 

Frauds,  fears,  and  fury,  have  poiTefs'd  the  ftate, 

And  fix'd  the  caufes  of  a  lafting  hate: 

A  bloody  Hymen  {hall  th'  alliance  join 

Betwixt  the  Trojan  and  Aufonian  line:  "yya 

But  thou  with  fpeed  to  night  and  hell  repair. 

For  not  the  gods  nor  angry  Jove  will  bear 

Thy  lawlefs  wandering  walks  in  upper  air. 


} 


Leave- 


-ti^  DRYDEN^S    VIRGIL. 

Leave  what  remains  to  me,  Satumia  fail :  '^ 

"The  fullen  fiend  her  founding  wings  difplay'd,     775 
Unwilling  left  the  light,    and  fought  the   nether 
ihade. 

In  midft  of  Italy,  well  known  to  fame, 
*Fhere  lies  a  lake,  Amfanclus  is  the  name. 
Below  the  lofty  mounts ,  on  either  fide 
Thick  foreHs  the  forbidden  entrance  hide;  780 

TuU  in  the  centre  of  the  facred  wood 
An  arm  arifes  of  the  St}''gian  flood; 
V/hich,  breaking  from  beneath  with  bellowing  found. 
Whirls  the  black  waves  and  rattling  flones  around. 
Here  Pluto  pants  for  breath  from  out  his  cell,        ^S^ 
And  opens  wide  the  grinning  jaws  of  hell. 
To  this  infernal  lake  the  fury  flies ; 
Kere  hides  her  hated  head,  and  frees  the  labouring  ikies. 
Saturnian  Juno,  now,  with  double  care. 
Attends  the  fatal  procefs  of  the  war.  790 

The  clo\\'ns  return'd  from  battle  bear  the  llain. 
Implore  the  gods,  and  to  their  king  complain. 
The  corpfe  of  Almon  and  the  reft  are  fliown. 
Shrieks,  clamours,  murmurs,  fill  the  frighted  town. 
Ambitious  Tumus  in  the  prefs  appears,  79^ 

And,  aggravating  crimes,  augments  their  fears : 
Proclaims  his  private  injuries  aloud,  1 

^  folemn  promife  made,  and  difavow'd;  > 

A  foreign  fon  is  fought,  and  a  mix'd  mongrel  brood.  J 
Then  they,  whofe  mothers,  frantic  with  their  fear,   '\ 
In  woods  and  wilds  the  flags  of  Bacchus  bear^   800  1*  , 
j^nd  lead  his  dances  with  difhevel'd  hair;  J 

Increafc 


JEN  E  IS.      BOOK    VII.  aaj 

Increafe  the  clamour,  and  the  war  demand 

(Such  was  Amata's  intereft  in  the  land), 

Againft  the  public  fanftions  of  the  peace;  8o^ 

A^gainft  all  omens  of  their  ill  fuccefs ; 

With  fates  averfe,  the  rout  in  arms  refort. 

To  force  their  monarch,  and  infult  the  court. 

But,  like  a  rock  unmov'd,  a  rock  that  braves 

The  raging  tempeft  and  the  rifmg  waves,  8io 

Prop'd  on  himfelf  he  Hands :  his  folid  fides 

Wafh  off  the  fea-weeds,  and  the  founding  tides; 

So  flood  the  pious  prince  unmov'd :  and  long 

Suftain'd  the  madnefs  of  the  noify  tlirong. 

But  when  he  found  that  Juno's  power  prevail'd,     815  ' 

And  all  the  methods  of  cool  counfel  fail'd. 

He  calls  the  gods  to  witnefs  their  offence, 

Difclaims  the  war,  afferts  his  innocence. 

Hurry'd  by  fate,  he  cries,  and  borne  before 

A  furious  wind,  we  leave  the  faithful  fhore :  820 

0  more  than  madmen!  you  yourfelves  fhall  bear 
The  guilt  of  blood  and  facrilegious  war : 
Thou,  Tumus,  fhalt  atone  it  by  thy  fate, 

And  pray  to  heaven  for  peace;  but  pray  too  late. 
For  me,  my  ftormy  voyage  at  an  end,  82 j 

1  to  the  port  of  death  fee u rely  tend. 

The  funeral  pomp  which  to  your  kings  you  pay. 

Is  all  I  want,  and  all  you  take  away. 

He  faid  no  more,  but,  in  his  walls,  confin'd, 

Shut  out  the  woes  which  he  too  well  divin'd :         850 

Nor  with  the  rifmg  ftorm  would  vainly  ftrive. 

But  left  the  helm,  and  let  the  veffel  drive, 

A  folemn 


©24  DR  YD  EN'S    VIRGIL, 

A  folemn  cuftom  was  obferv'd  of  old. 

Which  Latium  held,  and  now  the  Romans  hold": 

Their  ftandard  when,  in  fighting  fields,  they  rear      T 

Againft  the  fierce  Hyrcanians,  or  declare  t 

The  Scythian,  Indian,  or  Arabian  war:  J 

Or  from  the  boaftinj^  Parthians  would  reo-aln 

Their  eagles  loil  in  Carrhs's  bloody  plain: 

Two  gates  of  fteel  (the  name  of  Mars  they  bear)    84a 

And  ftill  are  worrtiip'd  with  religious  fear, 

Before  his  temple  ftand :  the  dire  abode. 

And  the  fear"d  ifTues  of  the  furious  god. 

Are  fenc'd  with  brazen  bolts;  without  the  gates. 

The  v/ary  guardian  Janus  doubly  waits.  84^ 

Then,  when  the  facred  fenate  votes  the  wars,  "^ 

The  Roman  conful  their  decree  declares,  |- 

And  in  his  robes  the  founding  gates  unbars.  J 

The  youth  in  military  fnouts  arife. 

And  the  loud  trumpets  break  the  yielding  fkies,       85® 

Thefe  rites,  of  old  by  fo\'ereign  princes  us'd^ 

Were  the  king's  ofHce,  but  the  king  refus'd : 

Deaf  to  their  cries,  nor  would  the  gates  unbar 

Of  facred  peace,  or  loofe  th'  imprifon'd  war: 

But  hid  his  head,  and,  fafe  from  loud  alarms,        85"^ 

Abhorr'd  the  wicked  miniftry  of  arms. 

Then  heaven's  imperious  queen  fhot  down  from  high; 

At  her  approach  the  brazen  hinges  fly; 

The  gates  are  forc'd,  and  every  falling  bar. 

And,  like  a  tempeft,  iifues  out  the  war,  86a 

The  peaceful  cities  of  th'  Aufonlan  fhore, 

Xull'd  in  their  eafe,  and  undiHurb'd  before. 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Vn,  its 

Are  all  on  fire;  and  fome,  with  ftudious  care. 

Their  reftive  fteeds  in  Tandy  plains  prepare : 

Some  their  foft  limbs  in  painful  marches  try,  S6^ 

And  war  is  all  their  wifh,  and  arms  the  general  cry. 

Part  fcour  the  rufty  (hields  with  feam,  and  part 

New  grind  the  blunted  ax,  and  point  the  dart : 

With  joy  they  view  the  waving  enfigns  fly. 

And  hear  the  trumpet's  clangor  pierce  the  Iky.        870 

Five  cities  forge  their  arms :  th'  Atinian  powers, 

Antemna?,  Tibur  with  her  lofty  towers, 

Ardea  the  proud,  the  Cruftumerian  town; 

All  thefe  of  old  were  places  of  renown. 

Some  hammer  helmets  for  the  fighting  field;  87^; 

Some  twine  young  fallov/s  to  fupport  the  Ihield ; 

The  croflet  fome,  and  fome  the  cuilhes  mould. 

With  filver  plated,  and  with  dudile  gold. 

The  ruftic  honours  of  the  fcythe  and  fhare. 

Give  place  to  fwords  and  plumes,  the  pride  of  war.  8 So 

Old  faulchions  are  new  tempei'd  in  the  fires : 

The  founding  trumpet  every  foul  infpires. 

The  word  is  ^iven,  with  eager  fpeed  they  lace 

The  fhining  head-piece,  and  the  fnield  embrace. 

The  neighing  deeds  are  to  the  chariots  ty'd;  S8^ 

Tlie  trufl:y  weapon  fits  on  every  fide. 

And  now  the  mighty  labour  is  begun. 
Ye  Mufes,  open  all  your  Helicon. 
Sing  you  the  chiefs  that  fways  th'  Aufonian  land. 
Their  arms,  and  armies  under  their  command:       890 
What  warriors  in  our  ancient  clime  were  bred ; 
What  foldiers  follow'd,  and  what  heroes  led. 

Vol,  XXIII.  Q^  For 


ftz^  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

For  well  you  know,  and  can  record  alone. 

What  fame  to  future  times  conveys  but  darkly  down, 

Mezentius  firft  appear'd  upon  the  plain;  89^ 

Scorn  fate  upon  his  brows,  and  four  difdain: 
Defying  earth  and  heaven :  Etruria  loft. 
He  brings  to  Tumus*  aid  his  baffled  hoft. 
The  charming  Laufus,  full  of  youthful  fire. 
Rode  in  the  rank,  and  next  his  fullen  lire;  900 

To  Turnus  only  kcond  in  the  grace 
Of  manly  mien,  and  features  of  the  face; 
A  Ikilful  horfeman,  and  a  huntfman  bred, 
"With  fates  averfe  a  thoufand  men  he  led ; 
His  fire  unworthy  of  fo  brave  a  fon ;  go^ 

Himfelf  well  worthy  of  a  happier  throne. 

Next  Aventinus  drives  his  chariot  round 
The  Latian  plains,  with  palms  and  laurels  crown'd. 
Proud  of  his  fteeds,  he  fmokes  along  the  field, 
Kis  father's  hydra  fills  the  ample  Ihield,  91 0 

A  hundred  ferpents  hifs  about  the  brims ; 
The  fon  of  Hercules  he  juftly  feems, 
"By  his  broad  fhoulders  and  gigantic  limbs. 
Of  heavenly  part,  and  part  of  earthly  blood, 
A  mortal  woman  mixing  with  a  god.  gi^ 

For  ftrong  Alcides,-  after  he  had  flain 
The  triple  Geryon,  drove  from  conquer'd  Spain 
His  captive  herds,  and  thence  in  triumph  led; 
On  Tufcan  Tiber's  flowery  banks  they  fed. 
Then  on  Mount  Aventine,  the  fon  of  Jove  920 

The  prieftefs  Rhea  found,  and  forc'd  to  love, 

For 


} 


J^NEIS.     BOOK    VIL  %tf 

For  arms  his  men  long  piles  and  javelins  bore. 
And  poles  with  pointed  fteel  their  foes  in  battle  gore. 
Like  Hercules  himfelf,  his  fon  appears. 
In  favage  pomp;  a  lion's  hide  he  wears;  92 jf 

About  his  fhoulders  hangs  the  fhaggy  Ikin, 
The  teeth  and  gaping  jaws  feverely  grin. 
Thus  like  the  god  his  father,  homely  drefl, 
Ke  ftrides  Into  the  hall,  a  horrid  gueft. 

Then  two  twin-brothers  from  fair  Tiburcame     930 
(Which  from  their  brother  Tiburs  took  the  namej; 
Fierce  Coras,  and  Catillus,  void  of  fear, 
Arm'd  Argive  horfe  they  led,  and  in  the  front  appear. 
Like  cloud-born  centaurs,  from  the  mountain's  height. 
With  rapid  courfe  defcending  to  the  fight,  935; 

They  rufli  along;  the  rattling  woods  give  way; 
The  branches  bend  before  their  fweepy  fway. 

Nor  v/as  Praenefte's  founder  wanting  there. 
Whom  fame  reports  the  fon  of  Mulciber; 
Found  in  the  iire,  and  fofler'd  in  the  plains,        940" 
A  Ihepherd  and  a  king  at  once  he  reigns. 
And  leads  to  Turnus'  aid  his  country  fwains. 
His  own  Praenefte  fends  a  chofen  band. 
With  thofe  who  plough  Saturnia"s  Gabine  land; 
Befides  the  fuccour  which  old  Anian  yields,  945 

The  rocks  of  Hernlcus,  and  dewy  fields, 
Anagnia  fat,  and  father  Amafene, 
A  numerous  rout,  but  all  of  naked  men: 
Kor  arms  they  wear,  nor  fwords  and  bucklers  wield, 
Kor  drive  the  chaxiot  through  the  dully  field;       950 

0^7,  But 


] 


»iS  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Bat  whirl  from  leathern  firings  huge  balls  of  lead: 
And  fpoils  of  yellow  wolves  adorn  their  head : 
The  left  foot  naked,  when  they  march  to  fight; 
But  in  a  bull's  raw  hide  they  fheath  the  right. 

Mefappus  next  (great  Neptune  was  his  fire),        955 
Secure  from  fleel,  and  fated  from  the  fire. 
In  pomp  appears;  and  with  his  ardour  warms 
A  heartlefs  train,  unexercis'd  in  arms : 
The  juft  Falifcians  he  to  battle  brings. 
And  thofe  who  live  where  lake  Ciminia  fp rings;     960 
And  where  Feronia's  grove  and  temple  flands. 
Who  till  Fefcennian  or  Flavinian  lands : 
All  thefe  in  order  march,  and  marching  fmg 
The  warlike  a(fHons  of  their  fea-born  king. 
Like  a  long  team  of  fnowy  fvvans  on  high,  965" 

Which  clap  their  wings,  and  cleave  the  liquid  fky, 
Wliich  homeward  from  their  watery  paflures  borne. 
They  fmg,  and  Afia's  lakes  their  notes  return. 
Not  one  who  heard  their  mufic  from  afar. 
Would  think  thefe  troops  an  army  trained  to  war;  970 
But  flocks  of  fowl,  that  when  the  tempeils  rear. 
With  their  hoarfe  gabbling  feek  the  filent  Ihore. 

Then  Claufus  came,  who  led  a  numerous  band 
Of  troops  embody 'd,  from  the  Sabine  land: 
And  in  himfelf  alone  an  army  brought.  975 

'Twas  he  the  noble  Claudian  race  begot: 
The  Claudian  race,  ordain'd,  in  times  to  come. 
To  fhare  the  greatnefs  of  imperial  Rome, 
He  led  the  Cures  forth  of  high  renown, 
Mutufcans  from  their  olive-bearing  town  5  980 

And 


} 


iENEIS.     BOOK    VIL  ciy 

And  all  th'  Eretian  powers :  befides  a  band 
That  follow'd  from  Velinum's  dewy  land: 
And  Amiternian  troops,  of  mighty  fame. 
And  mountaineers,  that  from  Sevenis  came. 
And  from  the  craggy  cliffs  of  Tetrica,  985 

And  thofe  where  yellow  Tiber  takes  his  way. 
And  where  Himella's  wanton  waters  play, 
Cafperia  fends  her  arms,  with  thofe  that  lie 
Bv  Fabaris,  and  fruitful  Foruli : 
The  warlike  aids  of  Horta  next  appear,  ggo 

And  the  cold  Nurfians  come  to  clofe  the  rear: 
Mix'd  with  the  natives  born  of  Latine  blood. 
Whom  Allia  wafhes  with  her  fatal  flood. 
Not  thicker  billows  beat  the  Libyan  main. 
When  pale  Orion  fets  in  wintery  rain;  99- 

Nor  thicker  harveft  on  rich  Hermes  rife. 
Or  Lycian  fields,  when  Phcebus  burns  the  flcles; 
Than  {land  thefe  troops:  their  bucklers  ring  around; 
Their  trampling  turns  the  turf,  and  Ihakes  the  folid 
ground. 
High  in  his  chariot  then  Halefus  came,  1 000 

A  foe  by  birth  to  Troy's  unhappy  name : 
From  Agamemnon  born :  to  Turnus'  aid, 
A  thoufand  men  the  youthful  hero  led ; 
Who  till  the  Maflick  foil,  for  wine  renown'd. 
And  fierce  Aruncans  from  their  hilly  ground:       lOO^ 
And  thofe  who  live  by  Sidicinian  fhores. 
And  where,  with  flioaly  fords,  Vulturnus  roars; 
Cales  and  Ofea's  old  inhabitants. 
And  rough  Saticulans  inur'd  to  wants : 

CL3  ^»S^^ 


230  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Light  demi-lances  from  afar  they  throw,  ici© 

Faften'd  with  leather  thongs,  to  gall  the  foe. 
Short  crooked  fwords  in  clofer  fight  they  wear. 
And,  on  their  warding  arms,  like  bucklers  bear. 

Nor,  (Ebalus,  fhalt  thou  be  left  unfung. 
From  nymph  Semethis  and  old  Telon  fprung :      1015 
Who  then  in  Teleboan  Capri  reign'd. 
But  that  fhort  ifle  th'  ambitious  youth  difdain'd; 
And  o'er  Campania  flretch'd  his  ample  fway ; 
Where  fwelling  Sarnus  feeks  the  Tyrrhene  fea: 
O'er  Batulum,  and  where  Abella  fees,  1020 

From  her  high  towers,  the  harvefi:  of  her  'trees. 
And  thefe  (as  was  the  Teuton  ufe  of  old) 
Wield  brazen  fwords,  and  brazen  bucklers  hold; 
Sling  weighty  ftones  when  from  afar  they  fight : 
Their  cafques  are  cork,  a  covering  thick  and  light. 

Next  thefe  in  rank,  the  warlike  Ufens  went. 
And  led  the  mountain-troops  that  Nurfia  fent. 
The  rude  Equicoloe  his  rule  obey*d ; 
Hunting  their  fport,  and  plundering  was  their  trade. 
In  arms  they  plough'd,  to  battle  ftill  prepard:      1030 
Their  foil  was  barren,  and  their  hearts  were  hard, 

Umbro  the  prieft,  the  proud  Marrubians  led,        "» 
By  king  Archippus  fent  to  Tumus'  aid ;  I 

And  peaceful  olives  crown'd  his  hoary  head,  J 

His  Vv-and  and  holy  words,  the  viper's  rage,  103^ 

And  venom'd  vround  of  ferpents,  could  affuage. 
He,  when  he  pleas 'd  with  powerful  juice  to  Heep 
Their  temples,  Ihut  their  eyes  in  pkafmg  fleep. 

5  But 


u^NEIS.      BOOK    VIL  231 

But  vain  were  Marfian  herbs,  and  magic  art. 
To  cure  the  wound  given  by  the  Dardan  dart.      104^ 
Yet  his  untimely  fate,  th'  Angitian  woods 
In  fighs  remurmur'd  to  the  Fucine  fioods. 
The  fon  of  fam'd  Hippolytus  was  there; 
Fam'd  as  his  fire,  and  as  his  mother  fair. 
Whom  in  Egerian  groves  Aricia  bore,  104^ 

And  nurs  a  his  youth  along  the  marfhy  fhore: 
Where  great  Diada's  peaceful  altars  fiame 
In  fruitful  fields,  and  Virbius  was  his  name, 
Hippolytus,  as  old  records  have  faid. 
Was  by  his  flepdam  fought  to  fnare  her  bed:  1050 

But  when  no  female  arts  his  mind  could  move. 
She  turn'd  to  furious  hate  her  impious  love, 
Tom  by  wild  horfes  on  the  fandy  fhore. 
Another's  crimes  th'  unhappy  hunter  bore; 
Glutting  his  father's  eyes  with  guiltlefs  gore,    1055 
But  chafle  Diana,  who  his  death  deplor'd. 
With  iEfculapian  herbs  his  life  reflor'd. 
When  Jove,  who  faw  from  high,  with  jufl  difdain. 
The  dead  infpir'd  with  vital  breath  again. 
Struck,  to  the  centre  with  his  flaming  dart,  1060 

Th'  unhappy  founder  of  the  god-like  art. 
But  Trivia  kept  in  fecret  fhades  alone. 
Her  care,  Hippolytus,  to  fate  unknown; 
And  call'd  him  Virbius  in  th'  Egerian  ofrove: 
Where  then  he  liv'd  obfcure,  but  fafe  from  Jove,  106^ 
For  this,  from  Trivia's  temple  and  her  wood,  1 

Are  courfers  driven,  who  fhei  their  mailer's  blood;    |» 
Affngiited  by  the  monflers  of  the  flood,  J 

Ct4  His 


J 


aji  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Plis  fon,  the  feccnd  Virbius,  yet  retained 

His  father's  art,  and  warrior  fteeds  he  rein'd.       1070 

Amid  the  troops,  and  like  the  leading  god. 
High  o'er  the  reft  in  arms  the  graceful  Turnus  rode: 
A  triple  pile  of  plumes  his  creft  adorn'd. 
On  which,  with  belching  flames,  Chimsera  burn'd  r 
The  more  the  kindled  combat  rifes  higher,  '^75 

The  more  with  fury  bums  the  blazing  fire. 
Fair  lo  graced  his  Ihield,  but  15  now 
With  horns  exalted  ftands,  and  feems  to  lowe ; 
(A  noble  charge)  her  keeper  by  her  fide. 
To  watch  her  walks,  his  hundred  eyes  apply'd.     1080 
And  on  the  brims  her  fire,  the  watery  god, 
Roird  from  a  filver  urn  his  cryftal  flood  : 
A  cloud  of  foot  fucceeds,  and  fills  the  fields 
With  fwords  and  pointed  fpears,  and  clattering  fnields : 
Of  Ar gives,  and  of  old  Sicanian  bands,  1085 

And  thofe  who  plough  the  rich  Satulian  lands ; 
Auruncan  youth,  and  thofe  Sacrana  yields. 
And  the  proud  Labicans,  with  painted  fhields. 
And  thofe  who  near  Numician  ftreams  refide. 
And  thofe  whom  Tiber's  holy  forefts  hide ;       1 090 
Or  Circe's  hills  from  the  main  land  divide: 
Where  Ufens  glide  along  the  lowly  lands. 
Or  the  black  water  of  Pomptina  ftands. 

Laft,  from  the  Volfcians  fair,  Camilla  came; 
And  led  her  warlike  troops,  a  warrior  dame :        1 095 
Unbred  to  fpinning,  in  the  loom  unlkiird. 
She  chofe  the  nobler  Pallas  of  the  field, 

Mix'd 


} 


JENEIS.     BOOK    VII. 


'33 


Mlx'd  with  the  firft,  the  fierce  virago  fought, 

Suftain'd  the  toils  of  arms,  the  danger  fought: 

Outftripp'd  the  winds  in  fpeed  upon  the  plain,       i  loo 

Flew  o'er  the  fields,  nor  hurt  the  bearded  grain ; 

She  fwept  the  feas,  and  as  Ihe  Ikim'd  along. 

Her  flying  feet  unbath'd  on  billows  hung. 

Men,  boys,  and  women,  ftupid  with  furprife. 

Where'er  fhe  pafles,  fix  their  wandering  eyes:       i loc 

Longing  they  look,  and  gaping  at  her  fight. 

Devour  her  o'er  and  o'er  with  vaft  delight. 

Her  purple  habit  fits  with  fuch  a  grace 

On  her  fmooth  Ihoulders,  and  fo  fuits  her  face: 

Her  head  with  ringlets  of  her  hair  is  crowoi'd  j      mo 

And  in  a  golden  caul  the  curls  are  bound. 

She  fhakes  her  myrtle  javelin;  and,  behind. 

Her  Lycian  quiver  dances  iii  the  wind. 


THE 


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THE 
EIGHTH      BOOK 

OF       THE 

jE  N  E  I  S. 

THE    ARGUMENT. 

The  'vvar  being  now  begun,  both  the  generals  make 
all  pofTible  preparations.  Tumus  fends  to  Diomedes, 
jSneas  goes  in  perfon  to  beg  fuccours  from  Evander^ 
and  the  Tufcans.  Evander  receives  him  kindly, 
furnifhes  him  with  men,  and  fends  his  own  fon  Pal- 
las with  him.  Vulcan,  at  the  requeft  of  Venus, 
makes  arms  for  her  fon  ^Eneas,  and  draws  on  his 
fliield  the  moft  memorable  anions  of  his  poUerity. 

"VXTHEN  Tumus  had  affembled  all  his  powers ; 

His  ftandard  planted  on  Laurentum's  towers  | 
V7hen  now  the  fprightly  trumpet,  from  afar. 
Had  given  the  fignal  of  approaching  war. 
Had  rouz*d  the  neighing  fleeds  to  fcour  the  fields,      ^ 
While  the  fierce  riders  clatter'd  on  their  fhields. 
Trembling  with  rage,  the  Latian  youth  prepare 
To  join  th'  allies,  and  headlong  rufti  to  war. 

Fierce 


^NEIS.     BOOK    VIIL  135 

Fierce  Ufens,  and  Meffapus,  led  the  crowd ; 

With  bold  Mezentlus,  who  blafphem'd  aloud,  10 

Thefe,  through  the  country  took  their  wafteful  courfe; 

The  fields  to  forage,  and  to  gather  force. 

Then  Venulus  to  Diomede  they  fend. 

To  beg  his  aid  Aufonia  to  defend : 

Declare  the  common  danger,  and  inform  l^ 

The  Grecian  leader  of  the  growing  ftorm : 

^neas  landed  on  the  Latian  coaft. 

With  banifli'd  gods,  and  with  a  bafHed  hoft: 

Yet  now  infpir'd  to  ccnqueft  of  the  ftate; 

And  claim'd  a  title  from  the  gods  and  fate,  20 

What  numerous  nations  in  his  quarrel  came. 

And  how  they  fpread  his  formidable  name : 

What  he  defign'd,  what  mifchiefs  might  arife. 

If  fortune  favour'd  his  firft  enterprize. 

Was  left  for  him  to  weigh,  whofe  equal  fears,  25 

And  common  intereft  was  involv'd  in  theirs. 

While  Turnus  and  th'  allies  thus  urge  the  war,         "i 

The  Trojan,  floating  in  a  flood  of  care,  V 

Beholds  the  tempeft  which  his  foes  prepare,  J 

This  way  and  that  he  turns  his  anxious  mind ;  30 

Thinks,  and  rejects  the  counfels  he  defign'dj 

Explores  himfelf,  in  vain,  in  every  part. 

And  gives  no  reft  to  his  diftraded  heart. 

So  when  the  fun  by  day,  or  moon  by  night. 
Strike  on  the  polilh'd  brafs  their  trembling  light,      55* 
The  glittering  fpecies  here  and  there  divide. 
And  call  their  dubious  beams  from  fide  to  fide ; 

Now 


a3«  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Now  on  the  walls^  now  on  the  pavement  play. 

And  to  the  cieling  flafli  the  glaring  day, 

'Twas  night :  and  weary  nature  lull'd  afleep  40 

The  birds  of  air,  and  fifhes  of  the  deep ; 

And  beaft,  and  mortal  men  :  the  Trojan  chief  l 

Was  laid  on  Tiber's  banks,  opprefs'd  with  grief,       > 

And  found  in  lilent  flumber  late  relief.  J 

Then  through  the  fhadows  of  the  poplar  wood  4^ 

Arofe  the  father  of  the  Roman  flood : 

An  azure  robe  was  o'er  his  body  fpread, 

A  wreath  of  Ihady  reeds  adorn'd  his  head : 

Thus,  manifeft  to  fight,  the  god  appear'd. 

And  with  thefe  pleafing  words  his  forrow  chear'd :    50 

Undoubted  offspring  of  ethereal  race, 

O  long  expefted  in  this  promis'd  place. 

Who,  through  the  foes,  haft  borne  thy  banifli'd  gods, 

Ref:or'd  them  to  their  hearths,  and  old  abodes; 

This  is  thy  happy  home!  The  clime  where  fate        55 

Ordains  thee  to  reftore  the  Trojan  ftate. 

Fear  not,  the  war  (ball  end  in  lafting  peace ; 

And  all  the  rage  of  haughty  Juno  ceafe. 

And  that  this  nightly  vilion  may  not  feem 
Th'  effeft  of  fancy,  or  an  idle  dream,  60 

A  fow  beneath  an  oak  (hall  lie  along. 
All  white  herfelf,  and  white  her  thirty  young, 
Wlien  thirty  rolling  years  have  run  their  race. 
Thy  fon,  Afcanius,  on  this  empty  fpace 
Shall  build  a  royal  town,  of  lafting  fame;  65" 

Which  from  this  omen  fhall  receive  the  name. 

Time 


^NEIS.     BOOK    VIII.  »37 

Time  fliall  approve  the-truth.     For  what  remains. 

And  how  with  fure  fuccefs  to  crown  thy  pains. 

With  patience  next  attend.     A  banifh'd  band. 

Driven  with  Evander  from  th'  Arcadian  land,  70 

Have  planted  here ;  and  plac'd  on  high  their  walls; 

Their  town  the  founder  Palanteum  calls : 

Deriv'd  from  Pallas,  his  great  grandiire's  name: 

But  the  fierce  Latians  old  poffefTion  claim. 

With  war  infeiling  the  new  colony;  'j^ 

Thefe  make  thy  friends,  and  on  their  aid  rely. 

To  thy  free  paflage  I  fubmit  my  ftreams : 

Wake,  fon  of  Venus,  from  thy  pleafmg  dreams : 

And,  when  the  fetting  ftars  are  loil  in  day. 

To  Juno*3  power  thy  juft  devotion  pay.  80 

With  facrifice  the  wrathful  queen  appeafe : 

Her  pride  at  length  ihall  fall,  her  fury  ceafe : 

When  thou  return'ft  vidorious  from  the  war. 

Perform  thy  vows  to  me  with  grateful  care. 

The  god  am  I,  whofe  yellow  water  flows  8^ 

Around  thefe  fields,  and  fattens  as  it  goes : 

Tiber  my  name;  among  the  rolling  floods 

Renown'd  on  earth,  efteem'd  among  the  gods. 

This  is  ray  certain  feat:  in  times  to  come. 

My  waves  Ihall  walh  the  walls  of  mighty  Rome.      90 

He  faid ;  and  plung'd  below,  while  yet  he  fpoke. 

His  dream  yEneas  and  his  ileep  forfook. 

He  rofe,  and  looking  up,  beheld  the  Ikies 

With  purple  blufliing  and  the  day  arife. 

Then,  water  in  his  hollow  palm  he  rook  9^ 

Irom  Tiber's  flood ;  and  thus  the  powers  bcfpoke : 

Laurentian 


23S  DR  YD  EN'S    VIRGIL. 

Laurentian  nymphs,  by  whom  the  ftreams  are  fed. 

And  father  Tiber,  in  thy  facred  bed 

Receive  -^neas ;  and  from  danger  keep. 

Whatever  fount,  whatever  holy  deep,  lOO 

Conceals  thy  v,-atery  ftores  j  where'er  they  rife. 

And,  bubbling  from  below,  falute  the  fkies. 

Thou  king  of  homed  floods,  whofe  plenteous  urn 

Suffices  fatnefs  to  the  fruitful  corn. 

For  this  thy  kind  compaflion  of  our  woes,  105 

Shall  Ihare  my  morning  fong,  and  evening  vows. 

But,  oh!  be  prefent  to  thy  people's  aid; 

And  firm  the  gracious  promife  thou  haft  made. 

Thus  having  faid,  two  gallies,  from  his  ftores. 

With  care  he  choofes;  mans,  and  fits  with  oars,     no 

Kow  on  the  fhore  the  fatal  fwine  is  found : 

Wondrous  to  tell ;  Ihe  lay  along  the  ground : 

Her  well-fed  offspring  at  her  udders  hung; 

She  white  herfelf,  and  white  her  thirty  young; 

^neas  takes  the  miother,  and  her  brood,  1 1  r 

And  all  on  Juno's  alrar  are  beftow'd. 

The  following  night,  and  the  fucceeding  day. 

Propitious  Tiber  fmooth'd  his  watery  way: 

He  roll'd  his  river  back,  and  pois'd  he  ftood: 

A  gentle  fwelling,  and  a  peaceful  Hood.  1 2* 

The  Trojans  mount  their  fhips;  they  put  from  fhore: 

Borne  on  the  wa^es,  and  fcarcely  dip  an  oar. 

Shouts  from  the  land  ^ive  omen  to  their  courfe. 

And  the  pitch'd  veflels  glide  with  eafy  force. 

The  woods  and  waters  wonder  at  the  gleam  1 2  jj 

Of  fhields,  and  painted  Ihips,  that  ftem  the  ftream. 

One 


iENEIS.      book:     VIIT.  ajj 

One  fummer's  night,  and  one  whole  day  they  pafs 

Betwixt  the  green-wood  fhades,  and  cut  the  liquid  glafs. 

The  fier}'  fun  had  nnifh'd  half  his  race, 

Look'd  back,  and  doubted  in  the  middle  fpace,      130 

When  they  from  far  beheld  the  rifing  towers. 

The  tops  of  fheds,  and  (hepherds  lowly  bowers : 

Thin  as  they  flood,  which  then  of  homely  clay. 

Now  rife  in  marble,  from  the  Roman  fway. 

Thefe  cots  (Evander's  kingdom,  mean  and  poor)     13  j 

The  Trojan  faw,  and  turn'd  his  Ihips  to  Ihore. 

'Twas  on  a  folemn  day :  th'  Areadian  Hates, 

The  king  and  prince  without  the  city  gates. 

Then  paid  their  offerings  in  a  facred  grove 

To  Hercules,  the  warrior  fon  of  Jove.  140 

Thick  clouds  of  rolling  fmoke  involve  the  Ikies; 

And  fat  of  entrails  on  his  altar  fries. 

But  when  they  faw  the  fhips  that  flem'd  the  flood. 
And  glitter'd  through  the  covert  of  the  wood. 
They  rofe  with  fear,  and  left  th'  unfinifh'd  feail:    143; 
Till  dauntlefs  Pallas  re-affur'd  the  reft 
To  pay  the  rites.     Himfelf,  without  delay, 
A  javelin  feiz'd,  and  fingly  took  his  v/ay. 
Then  gain'd  a  rifing  ground;  and  call'd  from  far: 
Refolve  me,  ftrangers,  whence,  and  what  you  are; 
Your  bufinefs  here,  and  bring  you  peace  or  war? 
High  on  the  flern,  ^neas  took  his  fiand. 
And  held  a  branch  of  olive  in  his  hand. 
While  thus  he  fpoke:  The  Phrygians  arms  you  fee, 
ExpelI'd  from  Trov,  provok'd  in  Italy.  15^ 

By 


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»40  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

By  Latian  foes,  with  war  unjuftly  made: 
At  firft  affianc'd,  and  at  laft  betray'd. 
This  meffage  bear:  the  Trcjans  and  their  chief. 
Bring  holy  peace,  and  beg  the  king's  relief. 
Struck  with  fo  great  a  name,  and  all  on  fire,  1 6(J 

The  youth  replies.  Whatever  you  require. 
Your  fame  exads:  upon  our  fliores  defcend, 
A  welcome  guell,  and,  what  you  wifh,  a  friend. 
He  faid ;  and  downward  hafting  to  the  ft  rand, 
Embrac'd  the  ftranger  prince,  and  join'd  his  hand. 
Conduced  to  the  grove,  ^Eneas  broke 
The  filence  firft,  and  thus  the  king  befpoke : 
Beft  of  the  Greeks,  to  whom,  by  fate's  command, 
I' bear  thefe  peaceful  branches  in  my  hand. 
Undaunted  I  approach  you ;  though  I  know  1 70 

Your  birth  is  Grecian,  and  your  land  my  foe : 
From  Atreus  though  your  ancient  lineage  came. 
And  both  the  brother-kings  your  kindred  claim. 
Yet,  my  felf-confcious  worth,  your  high  renown. 
Your  virtue,  through  the  neighbouring  nations  blown* 
Our  fathers  mingled  blood,  Apollo's  voice. 
Have  led  me  hither,  lefs  by  need  than  choice. 
Our  foimder  Dardanus,  as  fame  has  fung. 
And  Greeks  acknowledge,  from  Eleftra  fprung : 
Eledra  from  the  loins  of  Atlas  came ;  1 8a 

Atlas  whofe  head  fuftains  the  ftarry  frame. 
Your  fire  is  Mercury;  whom  long  before 
On  cold  Cyllene's  top  fair  Maja  bore, 
Maja  the  fair,  on  fame  if  we  rely. 
Was  Atlas'  daughter,  who  fuftains  the  Iky :  185 

Thus 


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iENEIS.     BOOK    Virr.  24.1 

Thus  from  one  common  fource  our  llreams  divide : 
Ours  is  the  Trojan,  yours  th'  Arcadian  fide. 
Rais'd  by  thefe  hopes j  I  fent  no  news  before. 
Nor  afk'd  your  leave,  nor  did  your  faith  implore: 
But  come,  without  a  pledge,  my  own  arabaffador. 
The  fame  Rutiiians,  who  with  arms  purfue 
The  Trojan  race,  are  equal  foes  to  you. 

Our  hoil  expell'd,  what  farther  force  can  ftay 
The  victor  troops  from  univerfal  fway  ? 
Then  will  they  ft  retch  their  power  athwart  the  land; 
And  either  fea  from  fide  to  fide  command. 
Receive  our  ofrer'd  faith;  and  give  us  thine: 
Ours  is  a  generous  and  experienc'd  line: 
We  want  not  hearts  nor  bodies  for  the  war.; 
In  council  cautious.,  and  in  fields  we  dare.  2Q0 

He  faid;  and  while  he  fpoke,  with  piercing  eyes 
Ev^ander  view'd  the  man  with  vaft  furprize, 
Pkas'd  with  his  action,  ravifh'd  with  his  face. 
Then  anfwer'd  briefly,  with  a  royal  graces 
O  valiant  leader  of  the  Trojan  line,  20^ 

In  whom  the  features  of  thy  father  Ihine, 
How  I  recall  Anchifes,  how  I  fee 
His  motions,  mien,  and  all  my  friend  in  thee! 
Long  though  it  be,  'tis  frefh  within  my  mind. 
When  Priam  to  his  fifter's  court  defign'd  210 

A  welcome  vifit,  with  a  friendly  ftay. 
And  through  th'  Arcadian  kingdom  took  his  vvay« 
Then,  paft  a  boy,  the  callov  down  began 
To  fhade  my  chin,  and  call  me  fiill  a  raan« 

Vol.  XXIIL  R  I  faw 


«4z  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

1  favv  the  fhining  train,  with  vaft  delight,  215- 

And  Priam's  goodly  perfon  pleas 'd  my  light  ; 
But  great  Anchifes,  far  above  the  reft. 
With  awful  wonder  fir'd  my  youthful  breaft, 
I  long'd  to  join,  in  friendfhip's  holy  bands. 
Our  mutual  hearts,  and  plight  our  mutual  hands.     220- 
I  fxrft  accofted  him:  I  fued,  I  fought. 
And,  with  a  loving  force,  to  Pheneus  brought. 
He  gave  me,  when  at  length  conftrain'd  to  go, 
A  Lycian  quiver,  and  a  Gnoffian  bow; 
A  veil  embroider'd,  glorious  to  behold,  225 

And  two  rich  bridles,  with  their  bits  of  gold. 
Which  my  fon's  courfers  in  obedience  hold. 
The  league  you  afk  I  offer,  as  your  right : 
And  when  to-morrow's  fun  reveals  the  light. 
With  fwift  fupplies  you  IhaU  be  fent  away;         230 
Now  celebrate,  with  us,  this  folemn  day; 
W'hofe  holy  rites  admit  no  long  delay. 
Honour  our  annual  feaft;  and  take  your  feat 
With  friendly  welcome,  at  a  homely  treat. 
Thus  having  faid,  the  bowls  (remov'd  for  fear)      33JJ 
The  youths  replac'd;  and  foon  reftor'd  the  cheer. 
On  fods  of  turf  he  fet  the  foldiers  round ; 
A  maple  throne,  rais'd  higher  from  the  ground, 
Keceiv'd  the  Trojan  chief:  and  o"er  the  bed, 
A  lion's  ihaggy  hide  for  ornament  they  fpread,       240^ 
The  loaves  were  ferv'd  in  canifters,  the  wine 
in  bowls,  the  prieft  renew'd  the  rites  divine-: 
Broird  entrails  are  their  food;  and  beefs  continued 
chine, 

'  '  But 


1 
} 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Vim  «43 

But,  when  the  rage  of  hunger  was  reprefs'd. 

Thus  fpoke  Evander  to  his  royal  gueft ;  245; 

Thefe  rites,  thefe  altars,  and  this  feaft,  O  king, 

From  no  vain  fears,  or  fuperllition,  fpring; 

Or  blind  devotion,  or  from  blinder  chance; 

Or  heady  zeal,  or  brutal  ignorance : 

But  fav'd  from  danger,  with  a  grateful  fenfe,  z^9 

The  labours  of  a  god  we  recompenfe. 

See,  from  afar,  yon  rock  that  mates  the  flcy. 

About  whofe  feet  fuch  heaps  of  rubbifh  lie: 

Such  indigefted  ruin;  bleak  and  bare. 

How  defert  now  it  ftands,  expos'd  in  air!  2^^ 

'Tvv'as  once  a  robber's  den;  inclos'd  around 

With  living  ftone,  and  deep  beneath  the  ground. 

The  monfter  Cacus,  more  than  half  a  bead. 

This  hold,  impervious  to  the  fun,  pofTefs'd. 

The  pavement  ever  foul  with  human  gore;  260 

Heads,  and  their  mangled  members,  hung  the  door. 

Vulcan  this  plague  begot :  and,  like  his  fire. 

Black  clouds  he  belch'd,  and  flakes  of  livid  fire. 

Time,  long  expefted,  eas'd  us  of  our  load: 

And  brought  the  needful  prefence  of  a  god,  26^ 

Th'  avenging  force  of  Kercules,  from  Spain, 

Arriv'd  in  triumph,  from  Geryon  flain; 

Thrice  liv'd  the  giant,  and  thrice  liv'd  in  vain. 

His  prize,  the  lowing  herds,  Alcides  drove 

Near  Tiber's  bank,  to  graze  the  fliady  grove.         270 

AUur'd  with  hope  of  plunder,  and  intent 

By  force  to  rob,  by  fraud  to  circumvent, 

R  3  The 


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»44-  BRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

The  brutal  Cacus,  as  by  chance  they  ftray^d. 

Four  oxen  thence,  and  four  fair  kine  convey'd: 

And,  left  the  printed  footfteps  might  be  feen,   '      2'^S 

He  dragg'd  them  backwards  to  his  rocky  den: 

The  trads  averfe,  a  lying  notice  gave, 

And  led  the  fearcher  backward  from  the  cave: 

Mean  time  the  herdfman  hero  fhifts  his  place,* 

To  find  frefh  pafture,  and  untrodden  grafs:  '         280 

The  beafts,  who  mif^'d  their  mates,  fill'd  all  around 

With  bellowings,  and  the  rocks  reftor'd  the  found. 

One  heifer,  who  had  heard  her  love  complain, 

Roar'd  from  the  cave,  and  made  the  projed  vain. 

Alcides  found  the  fraud :  with  rage  he  fhook,      *  28  c 

And  tofs'd  about  his  head  his  knotted  oak. 

Swift  as  the  winds,  or  Scythians  arrows  flight. 

He  clomb,  with  eager  hafte,  th*  aerial  height. 

Then  firft  we  faw  the  monfter  mend  his  pace: 

Fear  in  his  tyes,  and  palenefs  in  his  face,  200 

Confefs'd  the  god's  approach:  trembUng  he  fprings. 

As  terror  had  increas'd  his  feet  with  wings: 

Nor  ftay'd  for  ftairs;  but  down  the  depth  he  threw 

His  body;  on  his  back  the  door  he  drew. 

The  door,  a  rib  of  living  rock;  with  pains  29? 

His  father  hew'd  it  out,  and  bound  with  iron  chains. 

He  broke  the  heavy  links :  the  mountain  clos'd. 

And  bars  and  levers  to  his  foe  oppos'd. 

The  wretch  had  hardly  made  his  dungeon  faft; 

The  fierce  avenger  came  with  bounding  hafte:'       300 

Survey 'd  the  mouth  of  the  forbidden  hold ; 

And  here  and  there  his  raging  eyes  he  roUd, 

He 


iSNEIS.      BOOK    Vlir.  a4s 

He  gnafh'd  his  teeth;  and  thrice  he  compafs'd  round 

With  winged  fpeed,  the  circuit  of  the  ground. 

Thrice  at  the  cavern's  mouth  he  pull'd  in  vain,       305 

And,  panting,  thrice  defiiled  from  his  pain. 

A  pointed  flinty  rock,  all  bare,  and  black. 

Grew  gibbous  from  behind  the  mountain's  back: 

Owls,  ravens,  all  ill  omens  of  the  night. 

Here  built  their  nefts,  and  hither  wing'd  their  flight. 

The  leaning  head  hung  threatening  o'er  the  flood. 

And  nodded  to  the  left :  the  hero  fl:ood 

Averfe,  with  planted  feet,  and,  from  the  right, 

Tugg'd  at  the  folid  fl:one  with  all  his  might. 

Thus  heav'd,  the  fix'd  foundations  of  the  rock       315 

Gave  way :  heaven  echo'd  at  the  rattling  fliock. 

Tumbling  it  chok'd  the  flood :  on  either  fide 

The  banks  leap  backward,  and  the  fl reams  divide: 

The  Iky  flirunk  upward  with  unufual  dread ; 

And  trembling  Tiber  div'd  beneath  his  bed,  320 

The  court  of  Cacus  ftands  reveal'd  to  fight; 

The  cavern  glares  with  new-admitted  light. 

So  pent  the  vapours  with  a  rumbling  found 

Heave  from  below,  and  rend  the  hollow  ground : 

A  founding  flaw  fucceeds:  and,  from  on  high,      325 

The  gods  with  hate  beheld  the  nether  flcy: 

The  ghofl:s  repine  at  violated  night. 

And  curfe  th'  invading  fun,  and  ficken  at  the  fight. 

The  gracelefs  monfler,  caught  in  open  day, 

Inclos'd,  and  in  defpair  to  fly  away,  330 

Howls  horrible  from  underneath,  and  fills 

His  hollow  palace  with  unmanly  yells. 

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246  DRYDEN'S    VIRGILi 

The  hero  ftands  above;  and  from  afar 

Plies  him  with  darts,  and  ftones,  and  diftant  war. 

He,  from  his  noftrils  and  huge  mouth,  expires       35;; 

Black  clouds  of  fmoke,  amidft  his  father's  fires. 

Gathering,  with  each  repeated  blaft,  the  night: 

To  make  uncertain  aim,  and  erring  fight. 

The  wrathful  god  then  plunges  from  above. 

And  where  in  thickeft  waves  the  fparkles  drove,      340 

Their  lights  j  and  wades  through  fumes,  and  gropes  his 

way : 
Half  fmg'd,  half  ftified,  till  he  grafp'd  his  prey. 
The  m.onfter,  fpewing  fruitlefs  flames,  he  found;     1 
He  fqueez'd  his  throat,  he  writh'd  his  neck  around,  I 
And  in  a  knot  his  crippled  members  bound.        345  J 
Then,  from  their  fockets,  tore  his  burning  eyes; 
RoU'd  en  a  heap  the  breathlefs  robber  lies. 
The  doors,  unbarr'd,  receive  the  rufhing  day. 
And  thorough  lights  difclofe  the  ravifh'd  prey. 
The  bulls  redeem'd,  breathe  open  air  again:  ^co 

Next,  by  the  fett,  they  drag  him  from  his  den. 
The  wondering  neighbourhood,  with  glad  furprize. 
Beheld  his  fhagged  breaft,  his  giant  fize. 
His  mouth  that  flames  no  more,  and  his  extinguifh'd 

eyes. 

From  that  aufpicious  day,  with  rites  divine,  355; 

We  worfhip  at  the  hero's  holy  Ihrine. 
Potitius  firit  ordain'd  thefe  annual  vows. 
As  priefts,  were  added  the  Pinarian  houfe : 
Who  rais'd  this  altar  in  the  facred  Ihade, 
Where  honours,  ever  due,  for  ever  fhall  be  paid.  360 
I  For 


•JENEIS.     BOOK    Vlir.  247 

For  thefe  deferts,  and  this  high  virtue  fhown. 
Ye  warlake  youths,  your  heads  with  garlands  crown. 
Fill  high  the  goblets  with  a  iparkling  flood : 
And,  with  deep  draughts,  invoke  our  common  god. 
This  faid,  a  double  wreath  Evander  tv/in'd:  ^6^ 

And  poplars,  black  and  white,  his  temples  bind. 
Then  brims  his  ample  bowl :  with  like  defign 
The  reft  invoke  the  god,  with  fprinkled  wine. 
Mean  time  the  fun  defcended  from  the  Ikies; 
And  the  bright  evening-ftar  began  to  rife.  370 

And  now  the  priefts,  Potitius  at  their  head. 
In  fkins  of  beafts  involved,  the  long  proceflion  led : 
Held  high  the  flaming  tapers  in  their  hands. 
As  cuftom  had  prefcrib'd  their  holy  bands: 
Then  with  a  fecond  courfe  the  tables  load;  37^ 

And  with  full  chargers  offer  to  the  god. 
The  Salii  fmg,  and  cenfe  his  altars  round 
With  Saban  fmoke;  their  heads  with  poplar  bound. 
One  choir  of  old,  another  of  the  young; 
To  dance,  and  bear  the  burden  of  the  fong.  380 

The  lay  records  the  labour,  and  the  praife. 
And  all  th'  immortal  a(fls  of  Hercules. 
Firft,  how  the  mighty  babe,  when  fwath'd  in  ba»ds. 
The  ferperits  ftrangled  with  his  infant  hands. 
Then,  as  in  years  and  matchlefs  force  he  grew,      38^ 
Th'  Oechalian  walls,  and  Trojan  overthrew. 
Befides  a  thoufand  hazards  they  relate, 
Procur'd  by  Juno's,  and  Euriftheus'  hate. 
Thy  hands,  unconquer'd  hero,  could  fubdue 
The  cloud-born  Centaurs,  and  the  monfter  crew.  390 

R  4  Nor 


a^S  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Nor  thy  refiftlefs  arm  the  bull  vvithftood : 

Nor  he  the  roaring  terror  of  the  wood. 

The  triple  porter  of  the  Stygian  feat,  -v 

With  lolling  tongue,  lay  fawning  at  thy  feet :  V 

And,  feiz'd  with  fear,  forgot  thy  mangled  meat,     J 

Th'  infernal  waters  trembled  at  the  light; 

Thee,  god,  no  face  of  danger  could  affright; 

Not  huge  Typhceus,   nor  th'  unnumber'd  fnake, 

Increas'd  with  hi  fling  heads,  in  Lerna's  lake. 

Hail  Jove's  undoubted  fon!  an  added  grace  400 

To  heaven,  and  the  great  author  of  thy  race. 

Receive  the  grateful  offerings,  which  we  pay. 

And  fmile  propitious  on  thy  folenm  day. 

In  numbers,  thus,  they  fung:  above  the  reft:. 

The  den,  and  death  of  Cacus  crown  the  feaft.        405 

The  woods  to  hollow  vales  convey  the  foiind ; 

The  vales  to  hills,  and  hills  the  notes  rebound. 

The  rites  perform'd,  the  chearful  train  retire. 

Betwixt  young  Pallas,  and  his  aged  fire       ' 

The  Trojan  pafs'd,  the  city  to  furvey;  410 

And  pleafing  talk  beguil'd  the  tedious  way* 

The  ftranger  caft  around  his  curious  eyes : 

New  objefts  viewing  itill,  with  new  furprize. 

With  greedy  joy  enquires  of  various  things : 

And  atfts  and  monuments  of  ancient  kings,  41,^ 

Then  thus  the  founder  of  the  Roman  towers : 

Thefe  woods  were  firft  the  feat  of  fylvan  powers. 

Of  nymphs  and  fawns,  and  favage  men,  who  took 

Their  birth  from  trunks  of  trees  and  ftubborn  oak. 

Nor 


^ENEIS.     BOOK    VIII.  ^49 

Nor  law  they  knew,  nor  manners,  nor  the  care        ^ 
Of  labouring  oxen,  nor  the  ihining  fhare:  > 

Nor  arts  of  gain,  nor  what  they  gain'd  to  fpare.       J 
Their  exercife  the  chace:  the  running  flood 
Supply 'd  their  thirft;  the  trees  fupply'd  their  food. 
Then  Saturn  came,  who  fled  the  power  of  JovCy    425 
Robb'd  of  his  realms,  and  banifh'd  from  above. 
The  men,  difpers'd  on  hills,  to  towns  he  brought; 
And  laws  ordain'd,  and  civil  cuftoms  taught; 
And  Latium  call'd  the  land  where  fafe  he  lay 
From  his  undateous  fon,   and  his  ufurping  fway.    430 
With  his  mild  empire  peace  and  plenty  came: 
And  hence  the  golden  tim.es  deriv'd  their  name, 
A  more  degenerate  and  difcolour'd  age 
Succeeded  this,  with  avarice  and  rage. 
Th'  Aufonians,  then,  and  bold  Sicanians  came;    455* 
And  Saturn's  empire  often  chang'd  the  name. 
Then  kings,  gigantic  Tibris,  and  the  reft, 
Vv'ith  arbitrary  fway,  the  land  opprefs'd. 
For  Tiber's  flood  was  Albula  before; 
Till,  from  the  tyrant's  fate,  his  name  it  bore.        440 
I  laft  arriv'd,  driv'n  from  my  native  home. 
By  fortune's  power,  and  fate's  refiftlefs  doom. 
Long  tofs'd  on  feas,  I  fought  this  happy  land : 
Warn'd  by  my  mother  nymph,  and  call'd  by  heaven's 
command,  44^ 

Thus,  walking  on,  he  fpoke :  and  fhew'd  the  gate. 
Since  call'd  Carmental  by  the  Roman  ftate; 
Where  ftood  an  altar,  facred  to  the  name 
Of  old  Carmenta,  the  prophetic  dame : 

Who 


ijo  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Who  to  her  fon  foretold  th'  iEthenean  race. 

Sublime  in  fame,  and  Rome's  imperial  place.  45-0 

Then  fhews  the  forell:,  which  in  after-times. 

Fierce  Romulus,  for  perpetrated  crimes, 

A  facred  refuge  made:  with  this,  the  fhrine 

Where  Pan  below  the  rocks  had  rites  divine. 

Then  tells  of  Argus'  death,  his  murder'd  gued,      4  -  r 

Whofe  grave  and  tomb  his  innocence  atteil. 

Thence,  to  the  fteep  Tarpeian  rock  he  leads ; 

Now  rooPd  with  goldj  then  thatch'd  with  homely 

reeds. 
A  reverend  fear  (fuch  fuperftition  reigns 
Among  the  rude)  ev'n  then  poiTefs'd  the  Avains.      460 
Some  god  they  knew,  what  god  they  could  not  tell. 
Did  there  amidft  the  facred  horror  dwell. 
Th'  Arcadians  thought  him  Jove;  and  faid  they  faw 
The  mighty  thunderer  with  majeftic  awe ; 
Who  fhook  his  fhield,  and  dealt  his  bolts  around; 
And  fcatter'd  tempefts  on  the  teeming  ground. 
Then  faw  two  heaps  of  ruins ;  once  they  Hood 
Two  {lately  towns,  on  either  fide  the  flood, 
Satumia's  and  Janicula's  remains: 
And  either  place  the  founder's  name  retains.  470 

Difcourling  thus  together,  they  refort 
Where  poor  Evander  kept  his  country  court. 
They  view'd  the  ground  of  Rome's  litigious  hall. 
Once  oxen  low'd,  where  now  the  lawyers  bawl. 
Then,  ftooping,  through  the  narrow  gates  they  prefs'd. 
When  thus  the  king  addrefs'd  his  Trojan  guefl ; 

Mean 


^NEIS.     BOOK    VIII.  451 

Mean  as  it  is,  this  palace,  and  this  door. 

Received  Alcides,  then  a  conqueror. 

Dare  to  be  poor:  accept  our  homely  food 

Which  feafted  him;  and  emulate  a  god.  4S0 

Then  underneath  a  lowly  roof  he  led  ^ 

The  weary  prince  j  and  laid  him  on  a  bed :  > 

The  ftufEng  leaves,  with  hides  of  bears  oerfpread.   J 

Now  night  had  Ihed  her  filver  dews  around. 
And  with  her  fable  wings  embrac'd  the  ground,      485' 
When  love's  fair  goddefs,  anxious  for  her  fon, 
(New  tumults  rifing,  and  new  wars  begun) 
Couch'd  with  her  hufband,  in  his  golden  bed. 
With  thefe  alluring  words  invokes  his  aid ; 
And,  that  her  pleafmg  fpeech  his  mind  may  move,  490 
Infpires  each  accent  with  the  charms  of  love : 
While  cruel  fate  confpir'd  with  Grecian  powers. 
To  level  with  the  ground  the  Trojan  towers; 
I  alk  not  aid  th*  unhappy  to  reftore; 
Nor  did  the  fuccour  of  thy  Ikill  implore;  495 

Nor  urg*d  the  labours  of  my  lord  in  vain, 
A  finking  empire  longer  to  fuftain. 
Though  I  much  ow"d  to  Priam's  houfej  and  more 
The  danger  of  ^Eneas  did  deplore. 
But  now,  by  Jove*s  command,  and  fate's  decree,    500 
His  race  is  doom'd  to  reign  in  Italy ; 
With  humble  fuit  I  beg  thy  needful  art, 
O  ftill  propitious  power  that  rules  my  heart! 
A  mother  kneels  a  fuppliant  for  her  fon ; 
By  Thetis  and  Aurora  thou  wert  won  50^ 

To 


} 


1S^  DR YD  EN'S     VIRGIL. 

To  forge  impenetrable  fhlelds;  and  grace^ 

With  fated  arms,  a  lefs  illuftrious  race. 

Behold,  what  haughty  nations  are  combin'd 

Againft  the  relicks  of  the  Phrygian  kind  : 

With  fire  and  fword  my  people  to  deftroy;  j^io 

And  conquer  Venus  twice,  in  conquering  Troy. 

She  faid ;  and  flraight  her  arms,  of  fnowy  hue. 

About  her  unrefolving  hufband  threw. 

Her  foft  embraces  foon  infufe  defire  : 

His  bones  and  marrow  fudden  warmth  infpire  > 

And  all  the  godhead  feels  the  wonted  fire. 

Not  half  fo  fwift  the  rattling  thunder  flies. 

Or  forky  lightnings  fladi  along  the  ikies. 

The  goddefs,  proud  of  her  fuccefsful  wiles. 

And  confcious  of  her  form,  in  fecret  fmiles.  j;20 

Then  thus,  the  power  obnoxious  to  her  charms. 

Panting,  and  half  diflblving  in  her  arms : 

Why  feek  you  reafons  for  a  caufe  fo  juft : 

Or  your  own  beauties,  or  my  love  diftruft  ? 

Long  fmce,  had  yea  requir'd  my  helpful  hand,      ^2^ 

Th'  artificer  and  art  you  might  command. 

To  labour  arms  for  Troy;  nor  Jove,  nor  Fate, 

Confin'd  their  empire  to  fo  Ihort  a  date ; 

And,  if  you  now  deiire  new  wars  to  wage. 

My  fkill  I  promife,  and  my  pains  engage,  530 

Whatever  melting  metals  can  confpire. 

Or  breathing  bellows,  or  the  forming  fire. 

Is  freely  your's :  your  anxious  fears  remove : 

And  think  no  talk  is  difficult  to  love. 

Trembling 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Viri.  45S 

Trembling  he  fpoke:  and,  eager  of  her  charms,      ^^^ 

He  fnatch'd  the  willing  goddefs  to  his  arms ; 

Till  in  her  lap  infus'd,  he  lay  pofiefs'd 

Of  full  delire,  and  funk  to  pleafing  reft. 

Now  when  the  night  her  middle  race  had  rode, 

Afid  his  firft  (lumber  had  refrefh'J  the  god;  540 

The  time  when  early  houfewives  leave  the  bed ; 

When  living  embers  on  the  hearth  they  fpread; 

Supply  the  lamp,  and  call  the  maids  to  rife. 

With  yawning  mouths,  and  with  half-open'd  eyes; 

They  ply  the  diftafF  by  the  twinkling  light ;  543' 

And  to  their  daily  labour  add  the  night. 

Thus  frugally  they  earn  their  children's  bread : 

And  uncorrupted  keep  their  nuptial  bed,  ^ 

Not  lefs  concem'd,  nor  at  a  later  hour, 

Rofe  from  his  downy  couch  the  forging  power.      550 

Sacred  to  Vulcan's  name  an  ifle  there  lay. 
Betwixt  Sicilia's  coafts  and  Lipara, 
Rais'd  high  on  fmoking  rocks ;  and  deep  below. 
In  hollow  caves,  the  fires  of  ^tna  glow. 
The  Cyclops  here  their  heavy  hammers  deal;  ^^^ 

Loud  ftrokes  and  hiffings  of  tormented  fteel 
Are  heard  around:  the  boiling  waters  roar; 
And  fmoky  flames  through  fuming  tunnels  foar. 
Hither,  the  father  of  the  fire,  by  night. 
Through  the  brown  air  precipitates  his  flight,         560 
On  their  eternal  anvils  here  he  found 
The  brethren  beating,  and  the  blows  go  round : 
A  load  of  pointlefs  thunder  now  there  lies ; 
Before  their  hands,  to  ripen  for  the  ikies  ,* 

Thefe 


254  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Thefe  darts  for  angry  Jove  they  daily  caft;  rS^ 

Confum'd  on  mortals  with  prodigious  wafte. 

Three  wrays  of  writhin  rain,  of  fire  three  more. 

Of  winged  fouthern  winds,  and  cloudy  ftore 

As  many  parts,  the  dreadful  mixture  frame: 

And  fears  are  added,  and  avenging  flame,  c^o 

Inferior  minillers  for  Mars  repair 

His  broken  axle-trees  and  blunted  war : 

And  fend  him  forth  again  with  furbifh'd  arms. 

To  wake  the  lazy  war,  with  trumpets  loud  alarms. 

The  reft  refrefh  the  fcaly  fnakes  that  fold  5-7^ 

The  fhield  of  Pallas,  and  renew  their  gold. 

Full  on  the  creft  the  Gorgon's  head  they  place. 

With  eyes  that  roll  in  death,  and  with  diftorted  face. 

My  fons,  faid  Vulcan,  fet  your  taiks  afide; 
Your  ftrength,  and  mafter-fkill,  muft  now  be  try'd. 
Arms  for  a  hero  forge:  arms  that  require 
Your  force,  your  fpeed,  and  all  your  forming  fire. 
He  faid :  they  fet  their  former  work  aiide. 
And  their  new  toils  with  eager  hafte  divide. 
A  flood  of  molten  fllver,  brafs,  and  gold,  58^5 

And  deadly  fteel  in  the  large  furnace  roll'd; 
Of  this  their  artful  hands  a  fhield  prepare; 
Alone  fufficient  to  fuftain  the  war. 
Seven  orbs  within  a  fpacious  round  they  clofe! 
One  ftirs  the  fire,  and  one  the  bellows  blows.  590 

The  hifiing  fteel  is  in  the  fmithy  drown'd; 
The  grot  with  beaten  anvils  groans  around. 
By  turns  their  arms  advance,  in  equal  time: 
Br  turns  their  hands  defcend,  and  hammers  chime. 

They 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Vlir.  255 

They  turn  the  glowing  mafs  with  crooked  tongs : 

The  fiery  work  proceeds  with  ruftic  fongs. 

While,  at  the  Lemnian  god's  command,  they  urge 

Their  labours  thus,  and  ply  th*  -Solian  forge. 

The  chearful  morn  falutes  Evander's  eyes ; 

And  fongs  of  chirping  birds  invite  to  rife.  60a 

He  leaves  his  lowly  bed:  his  bufkins  meet 

Above  his  ancles ;  fandals  fheath  his  feet : 

He  fets  his  trufty  fword  upon  his  fide; 

And  o'er  his  fhoulder  throws  a  panther's  hide. 

Two  menial  dogs  before  their  mafter  prefs'd :         60^ 

Thus  clad,  and  guarded  thus,  he  feeks  his  kingly  guell. 

Mindful  of  promised  aid,  he  mends  his  pace; 

But  meets  -^neas  in  the  middle  fpace. 

Young  Pallas  did.his  fathers  Heps  attend ; 

And  true  Achates  waited  on  his  friend.  61 0 

They  join  their  hands :  a  fecret  feat  they  choofe; 

Th'  Arcadian  firfi:  their  former  talk  renews. 

Undaunted  prince,  I  never  can  believe 

The  Trojan  empire  loft,  while  you  furvive. 

Command  th'  afliftance  of  a  faithful  friend:  61^ 

But  feeble  are  the  fuccours  I  can  fend. 

Our  narrow  kingdom,  here  the  Tiber  bounds; 

That  other  fide  the  Latian  ftate  furrounds; 

Infults  our  walls,  and  waftes  our  fruitful  grounds 

But  mighty  nations  I  prepare  to  join  620 

Their  arms  with  yours,  and  aid  your  juft  defign. 

You  come,  as  by  your  better  genius  fent; 

And  fortune  feems  to  favour  your  intent. 

Not 


} 


i5^  DR  YD  EN'S    VIRGIL. 

Not  far  from  hence  there  ftands  a  hilly  town. 

Of  ancient  building  and  of  high  renown  ;  625 

Torn  from  the  Tufcans  by  the  Lydian  race; 

Who  gave  the  name  of  Coere  to  the  place 

Once  Agyllina  call'd :  it  flourifh'd  long 

In  pride  of  wealth,  and  warlike  people  ftrong : 

Till  curs'd  Mezentius,  in  a  fatal  hour,  630 

Affum'd  the  crown,  with  arbitrary  power. 

What  words  can  paint  thofe  execrable  times ; 

The  fubjedts  futferings,  and  the  tyrant's  crimes! 

That  blood,  thofe  murders,  O  ye  gods!  replace 

On  his  own  head,  and  on  his  impious  race:  6^^ 

The  living,  and  the  dead,  at  his  command 

Were  coupled,  face  to  face,  and  hand  to  hand : 

Till,  chok'd  with  ftench,  in  loath'd  embraces  ty'd. 

The  lingering  wretches  pin'd  away,  and  dy'"d. 

Thus  plung'd  in  ills,  and  meditating  more;  640 

The  people's  patience  try'd,  no  longer  bore 

The  raging  monfter :  but  with  arms  befet 

His  houfe,  and  vengeance  and  deftrudion  threat. 

They  fire  his  palace:  while  the  flame  afcends. 

They  force  his  guards,  and  execute  his  friends.       64^ 

He  cleaves  the  crowd;  and,  favour'd  by  the  night. 

To  Turnus'  friendly  court  directs  his  flight. 

By  juil  revenge  the  Tufcins  fet  on  fire. 

With  arms  their  king  to  punifhment  require: 

Their  numerous  troops,  now  muHer'd  on  the  flrand. 

My  counfel  fhall  fubmit  to  your  command. 

Their  navy  fwarms  upon  the  coaft :  they  cry 

7^0  hoiil  their  anchors  3  but  the  gods  deny. 

An 


^NEIS.      BOOK    Vlin  tS7* 

An  ancient  augur,  Ikill'd  in  future  fate, 

VJith.  thofe  foreboding  words  reftrains  their  hate:  6^^ 

Ye  brave  in  arms,  ye  Lydian  blood,  the  flower 

Of  Tufcan  youth,  and  choice  of  all  their  power. 

Whom  juft  revenge  againft  Mezentius  arms. 

To  feek  your  tyrant's  death  by  lawful  arms ; 

Know  this^  no  native  of  our  land  may  lead  660 

This  powerful  people :  feek  a  foreign  head. 

Aw'd  with  thefe  words,  in  camps  they  ftill  abide; 
And  wait,  with  longing  looks,  their  promis'd  guide, 
Torchan,  the  Tufcan  chief,  to  me  has  fent 
There  crown,  and  every  regal  ornament :  6Gy 

The  people  join.their  own  with  his  defire ; 
And  all,  my  conduft,  as  their  king,  require. 
But  the  chill  blood  that  creeps  within  my  veins. 
And  age,  and  liftlefs  limbs  unfit  for  pains. 
And  a  foul  confcious  of  its  own  decay,  670 

Have  forc'd  me  to  refufe  imperial  fway. 
My  Pallas  were  more  fit  to  mount  the  throne; 
And  Ihould,  but  he's  a  Sabine  mother's  fonj 
And  half  a  native :  but  in  ycu  combine 
A  manly  vigour,  and  a  foreign  line,  675, 

Where  fate  and  fmiling  fortune  fhew  the  way, 
Purfue  the  ready  path  to  fovereign  fway. 
The  ftaff  of  my  declining  days,  my  fon. 
Shall  make  your  good  or  ill  fuccefs  his  own. 
In  fighting  fields  from  you  (hall  learn  to  dare:        6S3 
And  ferve  the  hard  apprenticefhip  of  war. 
Your  matchlefs  courage  and  your  conduft  view; 
And  early  fhall  begin  t'  adm.ire  and  copy  you. 

Vol.  XXIII.  S  Befides, 


«5S  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Befides,  two  hundred  horfe  he  fhall  command : 

Though  few,  a  warlike  and  well-chofen  band.         6S^ 

Thefe  in  my  name  are  lifted  :  and  my  fon 

As  many  more  has  added  in  his  own. 

Scarce  had  he  faid :  Achates  and  his  gueft. 

With  down-caft  eyes,  their  filent  grief  expreft: 

Who,  fhort  of  fuccours,  and  in  deep  defpair,         690 

Shook  at  the  difmal  profpedl  of  the  war. 

But  his  bright  mother,  from  a  breaking  cloud. 

To  chear  her  iifue,  thunder'd  thrice  aloud. 

Thrice  forky  lightning  flalh'd  along  the  fky. 

And  Tyrrhene  trumpets  thrice  vvcre  heard  on  high. 

Then,  gazing  up,  repeated  peals  they  hear: 

And,  in  a  heaven  ferene,  refulgent  arms  appear; 

Reddening  the  fkies,  and  glittering  all  around. 

The  temper'd  metals  clafh,  and  yield  a  filver  found. 

The  reH  ftood  trembling,  ftruck  with  awe  divine.  7C0 

^neas  only  confcious  to  the  fign, 

Prefag'd  th'  event;  and  joyful  view'd,  above, 

Th'  accomplifh'd  promife  of  the  queen  of  love. 

Then,  to  th'  Arcadian  king :  This  prodigy 

(Difmifs  your  fear)  belongs  alone  to  me.  705 

Heaven  calls  me  to  the  war :  th'  expected  fign 

Is  given  of  promis'd  aids,  and  arms  divine. 

My  goddefs-mother,  whofe  indulgent  care 

Forefaw  the  dangers  of  the  growing  war. 

This  omen  gave;  when  bright  Vulcanian  arms,      710 

Fated  from  force  of  fteel  by  Stygian  charms, 

Sufpended,  (hone  on  high ;  fhe  then  foreihow'd 

Approaching  fights,  and  £elds  to  float  in  blood. 

Tumus 


JENEIS.     BOOK    Vlir.  255 

TTurnus  fliall  dearly  pay  for  faith  forfworn : 
And  corpfe  and  fwords,  and  fnields  on  Tiber  borne. 
Shall  choke  his  flood  :  now  found  the  loud  alarms. 
And  Latian  troops  prepare  your  perjur'd  arms. 
He  faid,  and,  rifmg  from  his  "homely  throne. 
The  folemn  rites  of  Hercules  begun: 
And  on  his  altars  wak'd  the  fleeping  fires:  720 

Then  chearful  to  his  houfhold  gods  retires. 
There  offers  chofen  fheep :  th'  Arcadian  king 
And  Trojan  youth  the  fame  oblations  bring. 
Next  of  his  men,  and  fhips,  he  makes  review. 
Draws  out  the  beft  and  ablcft  of  the  crew.  72^" 

Down  with-the  falling  ftream  the  refufe  run. 
To  raife  with  joyful  news  his  drooping  fon. 
Steeds  are  prepar'd  to  mount  the  Trojan  band, 
Who  wait  their  leader  to  the  Tyrrhene  land, 
A  fprightly  courfer,  fairer  than  the  reft,  730 

The  king  himfelf  prefents  his  royal  gueft, 
A  lion's  hide  his  back  and  limb^  infold. 
Precious  with  ftudded  works,  and  paws  of  gold. 
Fame  through  the  little  city  fpreads  aloud 
Th'  intended  march,  amid  the  fearful  crowd:        755 
The  matrons  beat  their  breafts ;  diffolve  in  tears; 
And  double  their  devotion  in  their  fears. 
The  war  at  hand  appears  v/ith  more  affright : 
And  rifes  «very  moment  to  the  fight. 
Then,  old  Evander,  with  a  clofe  embrace,  740 

Strain'd  his  departing  friend ;  and  tears  o'erflow  his 
face, 

S  j6        -  Would 


ft^o  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL* 

Would  heaven,  faid  he,  my  flrength  and  youth  recall. 
Such  as  I  was  beneath  Prenefte's  wall. 
Then  when  I  made  the  foremoft  foes  retire. 
And  fet  whole  heaps  of  conquer'd  (hields  on  fire;    74^; 
"When  Herilus  in  lingle  fight  I  flew, 
WTiom  with  three  lives  Feronia  did  endue : 
And  thrice  I  fent  him  to  the  Stygian  Ihorej 
Till  the  laft  ebbing  foul  return'd  no  more : 
Such  if  I  Hood  renewed,  not  thefe  alarms,  7^ 

Kor  death,  (hould  rend  me  from  my  Pallas'  arms : 
Nor  proud  Mezentius  thus  unpunifh'd  boail:, 
His  rapes  and  murders  on  the  Tufcan  coaft, 
"Ye  gods !  and  mighty  Jove,  in  pity  bring 
Relief,  and  hear  a  father,  and  a  king.  75* j 

If  fate  and  you  referve  thofe  eyes  to  fee 
My  fon  return  with  peace  and  viftory ; 
Jf  the  lov'd  boy  Ihall  blefs  his  father's  fight; 
If  we  Ihall  meet  again  with  more  delight  j 
Then  draw  my  life  in  length,  let  me  fuHain,  76c 

In  hopes  of  his  embrace,  the  worft  of  pain. 
But  if  your  hard  decrees,  which,  O!  I  dread. 
Have  doom"d  to  death  his  undefen'^ing  head. 
This,  O  this  very  moment,  let  me  die; 
While  hopes  and  fears  in  equal  balance  lie.  76 

While  yet  polTeft  of  all  his  youthful  charmsj 
I  ftrain  him  clofe  within  thefe  aged  arms ; 
.Before  that  fatal  news  my  foul  fhall  wound! 
He  faid,  and  fwooning,  funk  upon  the  ground : 
His  fervants  bore  him  off;  and  foftly  laid  771 

His  l^guilh'd  limbs  upon  his  homely  bed, 

Th 


i^NEIS.     BOOK    Vlir.  t^i 

The  horfemen  march;  the  gates  are  open'd  wide; 
^neas  at  their  head.  Achates  by  his  lide. 
Next  thefe  the  Trojan  leaders  rode  along, 
Laft,  follows  in  the  rear,  th'  Arcadian  throng,        77^ 
Young  Pallas  fhone  confpicuous  o'er  the  reft; 
Gilded  his  arms,  embroidered  was  his  veft. 
So,  from  the  feas,  exerts  his  radiant  head 
The  ftar,  by  whom  the  lights  of  heaven  are  led : 
Shakes  from  his  rofy  locks  the  pearly  dews;  780 

Difpels  the  darknefs,  and  the  day  renews. 
The  trembling  wives,  the  vv'alls  and  turrets  crowd; 
And  follaw,  with  their  eyes,  the  dufty  cloud : 
Which  winds  difperfe  by  fits;  and  fhew  from  far 
The  blaze  of  arms,  and  fhields,  and  fhining  war,   78^ 
The  troops,  drawn  up  in  beautiful  array. 
O'er  healthy  plains  purfue  the  ready  way. 
Repeated  peals  of  fhouts  are  heard  around : 
The  neighing  courfers  anfwer  to  the  found; 
And  fhake  with  horny  hoofs  the  folid  ground,    790 
A  greenwood  ihade,  for  long  religion  known. 
Stands  by  the  ftreams  that  wafb  the  Tufcan  town  i 
Incompafs'd  round  with  gloomy  hills  above. 
Which  add  a  holy  horror  to  the  grove. 
The  firft  inhabitants,  of  Grecian  blood,  7p^ 

That  facred  foreft  to  Sylvanus  vow'd: 
The  guardian  of  their  flocks  and  fields;  they  pay 
Their  due  devotions  on  his  annual  day. 
Not  far  from  hence,  along  the  river's  lide. 
In  tents  fecure,  the  Tufcan  troops  abide  I  ^Soo 

S3  By 


} 


26»  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

JBy  Tarchon  led.     Now,  from  a  rifing  ground^  '   ' 

JEneas  cali  his  wondering  eyes  around ;_ 

And  all  the  Tyrrhene  army  had  in  fight, 

Stretch'd  on  the  fpacious  plains  from  left  to  right. 

Thither  his  warlike  train  the  Trojan  led ;  80^ 

l^efrefh'd  his  men,  and  weary  horfes  fed. 

Mean-time     the    mother-goddefs,     crown'd    with 
charms, 

'Breaks  through  the  clouds,  and  brings  the  fated  arms. 

Within  a  v/inding  vale  (he  finds  her  fon. 

On  the  cool  river's  banks,  retir'd  alone.  810 

She  fhe'vs  her  heavenly  form  without  difguife. 

And  gives  herfelf  to  his  defiring  eyes. 

Behold,  fhe  faid,  performed  in  every  part. 

My  promife  made;  and  Vulcan *s  labour'd  art. 

Now  feek,  fecure,  the  Latian  enemy;  81  ? 

And  haughty  Turnus  to  the  field  defy. 

She  faid ;  and  having  firft  her  fon  embraced. 

The  radiant  arms  beneath  an  oak  fhe  plac'd. 

Proud  of  the  gift,  he  roll'd  his  greedy  fight 

Around  the  work,  and  gaz'd  with  vaft  delight.       820 

He  lifts,  he  turns,  he  poifes,  and  admires 

The  crefted  helm,  that  vomits  radiant  iires: 

His  hands  the  fatal  fword  and  corflet  hold ; 

One  keen  with  temper"d  ileel,  one  ftiffwith  gold. 

Both  ample,  fTamlng  both,  and  beamy  bright :        825 

So  ihines  a  cloud,  when  edg'd  with  adverfe  light. 

He  Ihakes  the  pointed  fpear :  and  longs  to  try 

Tlieplaited  cuifl^es  on  his  raanly  thigh; 

But 


^NEIS.     BOOK    Virr.  zSi 

But  mofl:  admires  the  fliield's  myfterious  mould. 

And  Roman  triumphs  rifing  on  the  gold.  830 

For  thefe,  embofs'd,  the  heavenly  fmith  had  wrought 

(Not  in  the  rolls  of  future  time  untaught) 

The  wars  in  order,  and  the  race  divine 

Of  warriors,  iffuing  from  the  Julian  line. 

The  cave  of  Mars  was  drefs'd  with  mofly  greens :  83^ 

There,  by  the  wolf,  was  laid  the  martial  twins : 

Intrepid  on  her  fwelling  dugs  they  hung; 

The  fofter-dam  loird  out  her  fawning  tongue: 

They  fuck'd  fecure,  while  bending  back  her  head. 

She  lick'd  their  tender  limbs;  and  form'd  them  as  thej 

fed. 
Not  far  from  hence  new  Rome  appears,  with  games 
Projecled  for  the  rape  of  Sabine  dames. 
The  pit  refounds  with  fhrieks :  a  war  fucceeds. 
For  breach  of  public  faith,  and  unexampled  deeds. 
Here  for  revenge  the  Sabine  troops  contend :  84^ 

The  Romans  there  with  arms  the  prey  defend. 
Weary 'd  with  tedious  war,  at  length  they  ceafe; 
And  both  the  kings  and  kingdoms  plight  the  peace. 
The  friendly  chiefs,  before  Jove's  altar  ftand ; 
Both  arm'd,  with  each  a  charger  in  his  hand;         850 
A  fatted  fow  for  facrifice  is  led ; 
With  imprecations  on  the  perjur'd  head. 
Near  this  the  traitor  Metius,  llretch'd  between 
Four  fier}'  fteeds,  is  dragged  along  the  green; 
Ey  Tullus'  doom:  the  brambles  drink  his  blood;    85^ 
And  his  torn  limbs  are  left,  the  vultures'  food. 

S  4  There 


3^64  DRYDEN'5    VIRGIL," 

There  Porfenna  to  Rome  proud  Tarquin  brings; 

And  would  by  force  reftore  the  banilh'd  kings. 

One  tyrant  for  his  fellow-tyrant  fights : 

The  Roman  youth  aflert  their  native  rights,  86o 

Before  the  town  the  Tufcan  army  lies: 

To  win  by  famine,  or  by  fraud  furprize. 

Their  king,  half  threatening,  half  difdaining,  flood : 

While  Codes  broke  the  bridge;  and  ftemm'd  the  flood. 

The  captive  maids  there  tempt  the  raging  tide:      865 

Spac'd  from  their  chains,  with  Clelia  for  their  guide. 

High  on  a  rock  heroic  Manlius  flood ; 
To  guard  the  temple,  and  the  temple's  god. 
Then  Rome  was  poor ;  and  there  you  might  behold 
The  palace  thatch'd  with  flraw,   now  roof 'd  with 
gold.  870 

The  filver  goofe  before  the  fhining  gate 
There  flew;  and,  by  her  cackle,  fav'd  the  flate. 
She  told  the  Gauls  approach :  th'  approaching  Gauls, 
Obfcure  in  night,  afcend,  and  feize  the  walls. 
The  gold,  diffembled  well  their  golden  hair;         875 
And  golden  chains  on  their  white  necks  they  wear. 
Gold  are  their  vefls:  long  Alpine  fpears  they  wield: 
And  their  .left  arm  fuflains  a  length  of  fhield,  . 
Hard  by,  the  leaping  Salian  priefls  advance: 
And  naked  through  the  ftreets  the  mad  Luperci  dance 
In  caps  cf  wool.     The  targets  dropt  from  heaven; 
Here  modefl  matrons  in  foft  litters  driven. 
To  pay  their  vows  in  folemn  pomp  appear : 
And  odorous  gun>s  in  their  chafte  hands  they  bear, 

.•   „  Far 


JE-NEIS.      BOOK    Vin.  tS^- 

Far  hence  remov'd,  the  Stygian  feats  are  feen:       S85 

Pains  of  the  damn'd,  and  punifh'd  Cataline: 

Hung  on  a  rock,  the  traitor ;  and  around 

The  furies  hifTing  from  the  nether  ground. 

Apart  from  thefe,  the  happy  fouk  he  draws, 

And  Cato's  holy  ghoft  difpenfmg  laws.  8 90 

Eetwixt  the  quarters  flows  a  golden  fea: 

But  foaming  furges,  there,  in  filver  play. 

The  dancing  dolphins,  with  their  tails,  divide 

1  he  glittering  waves,  and  cut  the  precious  tide. 

Amid  the  main,  Vxo  mighty  fleets  engage  89^^ 

Their  brazen  beaks  opposed  with  equal  rage. 

Adium  furveys  the  well-difputed  prize: 

Leucate's  watery  plain  with  foamy  billows  fries. 

Young  Cafar,  on  the  ftern,  in  armour  bright. 

Here  leads  the  Romans  and  their  gods  to  fight :      900 

His  beamy  temples  fhoot  their  flames  afar 3 

And  o'er  his  head  is  hung  the  Julian  ftar. 

Agrippa  feconds  him,  with  profperous  gales; 

And,  with  propitious  gods,  his  foes  aifails, 

A  naval  crown,  that  binds  his  manly  brows,  90^ 

The  happy  fortune  of  the  fight  forelhows. 

Rang'd  on  the  line  oppos'd,  Antonius  brings 
Barbarian  aids,  and  troops  of  eaftern  kings. 
Th'  Arabians  near,  and  Baftrians  from  afar. 
Of  tongues  difcordant,  and  a  mingled  war.  ^lO 

And,  rich  in  gaudy  robes,  amidft  the  ftrife, 
Kis  ill  fate  follows  him;  th'  Egyptian  wife. 
Moving  they  fight :  with  oars,  and  forky  prows. 
The  froth  is  gather'di  and  the  water  glows* 

It 


«66  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

It  feems  as  if  the  Cyclades  again  gjc 

Were  rooted  up,  and  juftled  in  the  main; 
Or  floating  mountains,  floating  mountains  meet; 
Such  is  the  fierce  encounter  of  the  fleet. 
Fire-balls  are  thrown;  and  pointed  javelins  fly: 
The  fields  of  Neptone  take  a  purple  dye.  920 

The  queen  herfelf,  amidfl  the  loud  alarms. 
With  cymbals  tofs'd  her  fainting  foldiers  warms. 
Fool  as  fhe  was;  who  had  not  yet  divin'd 
Her  cruel  fate;  nor  faw  the  fnakes  behind. 
Her  country  gods,  the  monfters  of  the  Iky,  925 

Great  Neptune,  Pallas,  and  lovers  queen,  defy. 
The  dog  Anubis  barks,  but  barks  in  vain; 
Nor  longer  dares  oppofe  th'  sethereal  train. 
Mars,  in  the  middle  of  the  fhining  (hield. 
Is  grav'd,  and  ftrides  along  the  liquid  field.  930 

The  Dirs  foufe  from  heaven,  with  fwift  defcent: 
And  Difcord,  dy'd  in  blood,  with  garments  rent. 
Divides  the  peace :  her  fleps  Eellona  treads. 
And  fnakes  her  iron  rod  above  their  heads. 
This  feen,  Apollo,  from  his  Adian  height,  955 

Pours  down  his  arrows :  at  whofe  winged  flight 
The  trembling  Indians  and  Egyptians  yield : 
And  foft  Sabsans  quit  the  watery  field. 
The  fatal  miftrefs  hoifts  her  filken  fails : 
And,  fhrinking  from  the  fight,  invokes  the  gales, 
Aghaft  fne  looks;  and  heaves  her  breaft  for  breath; 
Panting,  and  pale  with  fear  of  future  death. 
The  god  had  figur'd  her,  as  driven  along 
By  winds  and  waves,  and  fc adding  through  the  throng. 

Jull 


^NEIS.      BOOK    VIII.  ^(>^ 

Juft  oppofite,  fad  Nilus  opens  wide  94j^ 

His  arms,  and  ample  bofom,  to  the  tide. 
And  fpreads  his  mantle  o'er  the  winding  coaft; 
In  which  he  wraps  his  queen,  and  hides  the  flying  hoft» 
The  vidor,  to  the  god  his  thanks  exprefs'd: 
And  Rome  triumphant,  with  his  prefence  blefs'd. 
Three  hundred  temples  in  the  town  he  plac'd; 
With  fpoils  and  altars  every  temple  grac'd. 
Three  (hining  nights,  and  three  fucceeding  days,     >^ 
The  fields  refoand  with  fhouts,    the  ftreets  with  I 
praife,  T 

The  domes  with  fongs,  the  theatres  with  plays.        J 
All  altars  flame :  before  each  altar  lies, 
Drench'd  in  his  gore,  the  deftin'd  facrifice. 
Great  Ca:far  fits  fublime  upon  his  throne; 
Before  Apollo's  porch,  of  Parian  flone:. 
Accepts  the  prefents  vow'd  for  vidory ; .  960 

And  hangs  the  monum.ental  crown  on  high. 
Vafl:  crowds  of  vanquifli'd  nations  march  along. 
Various  in  arms,  in  habit,  and  in  tongue. 
Here  Mulciber  affigns  the  proper  place 
For  Carians,^  and  th'  ungirt  Numidian  race;  965 

Then  ranks  the  Thracians  in  the  fecond  row; 
And  Scythians,  expert  in  dart  and  bow. 
And  here  the  tam'd  Euphrates  humbly  glides: 
And  there  the  Rhine  fubmits  her  fwelling  tides. 
And  proud  Araxes,  whom  no  bridge  could  bind,      "1 
The  Danes'  unconquer'd  offspring  march  behind;       \ 
And  Morini,  the  Jail  of  human  kind..  J 

Thefe 


46S  .IDHrDEN'S    VfRCrL. 

Thefe  figures,  on  the  fhield  divinely  wrought. 
By  Vulcan  labour'd,  and  by  Venus  brought. 
With  joy  and  wonder  fill  the  hero's  thought,      9 
Unknown  the  names,  he  yet  admires  the  grace; 
And  bears  aloft  the  fame  and  fortune  of  his  race. 


J 


THE 


I  269  3 

THE 
NINTH      BOOK 

©   F       T  H    E 

jE  N  E  I  S. 

T.H  E    ARGUMENT. 

Turnus  takes  advantage  of  ^neas's  abfence,  iires 
fome  of  his  fhips  (which  are  transformed  into  fea- 
nymphs)  and  affaults  his  camp.  The  Trojans,  re- 
duced to  the  laft  extremities,  fend  Nifus  and  Eu- 
ryalus  to  recal  ^neas;  which  furnifhes  the  poet 
with  that  admirable  epifode  of  their  friendlhip,  ge- 
nerofity,  and  the  conclufion  of  their  adventures. 

'X^IT'HILE  thefe  aifairs  in  diftant  places  pafs'd, 

"     The  various  Iris  Juno  fends  with  hafte. 
To  find  bold  Turnus,  who,  with  anxious  thought. 
The  fee  ret  (hade  of  his  great  grandfire  fought. 
Retir'd  alone  fhe  found  the  daring  man :  ^ 

And  op'd  her  rofy  lips,  and  thus  began: 
What  none  of  all  the  gods  could  grant  thy  vows; 
That,  Turnus,  this  aufpicious  day  beflowsl 


S70  DRYDEN^S     VIRGIL. 

^neas,  gone  to  feek  th'  Arcadian  prince. 

Has  left  the  Trojan  camp  without  defence;  lO 

And,  fhort  of  fuccours  there,  employs  his  pains 

In  parts  remote  to  raife  the  Tufcan  fwains: 

Now  fnatch  an  hour  that  favours  thy  defigns. 

Unite  thy  forces,  and  attack  their  lines. 

This  faid,  on  equal  wings,  fhe  pois'd  her  weight,      i_j 

And  form'd  a  radiant  rainbow  in  her  flight. 

The  Daunian  hero  lifts  his  hands  and  eyes. 
And  thus  invokes  the  goddefs  as  Ihe  flies : 
Iris,  the  grace  of  heaven,  what  power  divine 
Has  fent  the.e  down,  through  dufky  clouds  to  fhine?  20 
See  they  divide!  immortal  day  appears; 
And  glittering  planets  dancing  in  their  fpheres! 
With  joy,  thefe  happy  omens  I  obey; 
And  follow  to  the  war,  the  god  that  leads  the  way. 

Thus  having  faid,  as  by  the  brook  he  Hood,         25 
He  fcoop'd  the  water  from  the  cryfl:al  flood; 
Then,  with  his  hands,  the  drops  to  heaven  he  throws. 
And  loads  the  pov.-ers  above  with  offer'd  vows, 

Nov/  march  the  bold  confederates  through  the  plain; 
Well  hors'd,  well  clad,  a  rich  and  fhining  train;     30 
Meflapus  leads  the  van;  and  in  the  rear. 
The  fons  of  Tyrrheus  in  bright  arms  appear. 
In  the  main  battle,  with  his  flaming  crefl. 
The  mighty  Turnus  towers  above  the  reft : 
Silent  they  move;  majeftically  flow. 
Like  ebbing  Nile,  or  Ganges  in  his  flow,  3jf 

The  Trojans  view  the  dufty  cloud  from  far; 
^nd  the  dark  menace  of  the  diftant  war. 

CaicuB 


^NEIS.     BOOK    VIIL  zji 

Caicus  from  the  rampire  faw  it  rife. 

Blackening  the  fields,  and  thickening  through  the  fldes. 

Then,  to  his  fellows,  thus  aloud  he  calls: 

What  rolling  clouds,  my  friends,  approach  the  walls? 

Arm,  arm,  and  man  the  works:  prepare  your  fpears 

And  pointed  darts;  the  Latian  hoft  appears! 

Thus  warn'd,  they  (hut  their  gates;  with  ihouts  afcend 

The  bulwarks,  and,  fecure,  their  foes  attend. 

For  their  wife  general,  with  forefeeing  care. 

Had  charg'd  them,  not  to  tempt  the  doubtful  war: 

Nor,  though  provok'd,  in  open  fields  advance; 

But  clofe  within  their  lines  attend  their  chance:       50 

Unwilling,  yet  they  keep  the  ftrift  command  ^ 

And  fourly  wait  in  arms  the  hollile  band. 

The  fiery  Turnus  flew  before  the  reft, 

A  pye-ball'd  fteed  of  Thracian  ftrain  he  prefs'd ; 

His  helm  of  maflfy  gold ;  and  crimfon  was  his  creft. 

With  twenty  horfe  to  fecond  his  defigns. 

An  unexpefted  foe,  he  fac'd  the  lines. 

Is  there,  he  faid,  in  arms  who  bravely  dare 
His  leader's  honour,  and  his  danger,  fhare; 
Then,  fpurring  on,  his  brandifh'd  dart  he  threw,     60 
In  fign  of  war;  applauding  fhouts  enfue, 

Amaz*d  to  find  a  daftard  race  that  run 
Behind  the  rampires,  and  the  battle  fhun. 
He  rides  around  the  camp,  with  rolling  eyes. 
And  (lops  at  every  poft;  and  every  pafifage  tries.       6^ 
So  roams  the  nightly  wolf  about  the  fold. 
Wet  with  defcending  Ihowers,  and  fliff  with  cold; 

I  He 


J 


2711  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL* 

He  howls  for  hunger,  and  he  grins  for  pain; 

His  gnafliing  teeth  are  exercis'd  in  vain : 

And,  impotent  of  anger,  finds  no  way  -^0 

In  his  diftended  paws  to  grafp  the  prey. 

The  mothers  Men ;  but  the  bleating  lambs 

Securely  fwig  the  dug  beneath  the  dams. 

Thus  ranges  eager  Turnus  o'er  the  plain. 

Sharp  with  defire,  and  furious  with  difdain:  7J 

Surveys  each  paiTage  with  a  piercing  fight; 

To  force  his  foes  in  equal  field  to  fight. 

Thus,  while  he  gazes  round,  at  length  he  fpies 

Where,  fenc'd  with  ftrong  redoubts,  their  navy  lies; 

Clofe  uEdemeath  the  walls :  the  wafhing  tide  So 

Secures  from  all  approach  this  weaker  fide. 

He  takes  the  wifh'd  occafion ;  fills  his  hand 

With  ready  fires,  and  fnakes  a  fiaming  brand: 

Urg'd  by  his  prefence,  every  foul  is  warm'd. 

And  ever)'  hand  with  kindled  fire  is  arm'd.  Sr 

From  the  fir'd  pines  the  fcattering  fparkles  fly; 

Fat  vapours  mix'd  with  fiames  involve  the  ficy. 

What  power,  O  Mufes,  could  avert  the  flame 

Which  threaten'd,  in  the  fleet,  the  Trojan  name! 

Tell :  for  the  faft,  through  length  of  time  obfcure,    93 

Is  hard  to  faith;  yet  fhall  the  fame  endure. 

'Tis  faid  that,  when  the  chief  prepar'd  his  flight. 
And  fell'd  his  timber  from  Mount  Ida's  height. 
The  grandam  goddefs  then  approached  her  fon. 
And  with  a  mother's  majefly  begun:  5^ 

Grant  me,  fhe  faid,  the  fole  requeft  I  bring, 
Since  conquer'd  heaven  tas  ovvnW  you  for  its  king : 

On 


^NEIS.     BOOK    VIII.  a7J 

On  Ida's  brows,  for  ages  paft,  there  flood. 

With  firs  and  maples  fill'd,  a  fhady  wood: 

And  on  the  fummit  rofe  a  facred  grove,  lOO 

Where  I  was  worfhip'd  with  religious  love; 

Thefe  woods,  that  holy  grove,  my  long  delight, 

I  gave  the  Trojan  prince  to  fpeed  his  flight. 

Now  fill'd  with  fear,  on  their  behalf  I  come; 

Let  neither  winds  o'erfet,  nor  waves  intomb,  105 

The  floating  forefts  of  the  facred  pine; 

But  let  it  be  their  fafety  to  be  mine. 

Then  thus  reply'd  her  awful  fen ;  who  rolls 

The  radiant  liars,  and  hea\  en  and  earth  controls : 

How  dare  you,  mother,  endlefs  date  demand,        no 

For  veffels  moulded  by  a  mortal  hand  ? 

What  then  is  fate  ?    Shall  bold  JEntas  ride. 

Of  fafety  certain,  on  th'  uncertain  tide? 

Yet  what  I  can,  I  grant :  when,  wafted  o'er. 

The  chief  is  landed  on  the  Latian  Ihore,  115 

Whatever  Ihips  efcape  the  raging  ftorms. 

At  my  command  fhall  change  their  fading  forms 

To  nymphs  divine;  and  plow  the  watery  way. 

Like  Dotis  and  the  daughters  of  the  fea. 

To  feal  his  facred  vow,  by  Styx  he  fwore,  120 

The  lake  with  liquid  pitch,  the  dreary  Ihcre ; 
And  Phlegethon's  innavigable  flood,  ^ 

And  the  black  regions  of  his  brother  god  ;  > 

He  faid  ;  and  fhook  the  fkies  with  his  imperial  nod.  J 

And  now,  at  length,  the  number 'd  hours  were  come, 
E^refixd  by  fate's  irrevocable  doom. 

Vol.  XXm.  T  When 


^74.  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

When  the  great  mother  of  the  gods  was  free 
To  fave  her  fhips,  and  finifh  Jo  .e's  decree. 
Firft,  from  the  quarter  of  the  morn,  there  fpmng, 
A  li-^ht  that  fmg'd  the  heavens,  and  fhot  along:     130 
Then  from  a  cloud.,  fring'd  round  with  golden  fires. 
Were  tim.brels  heard,  and  Berecynthian  choirs: 
And  laft  a  voice,  with  more  than  mortal  founds, 
Bothhofts,  in  arms  oppos'd,  widi  equal  horror  wounds.* 
O  Trojan  race,  your  needlefs  aid  forbear;  135 

And  know  my  fnips  are  my  peculiar  care. 
With  greater  eafe  the  bold  Rutulian  may. 
With  hiding  brands,  attempt  to  burn  the  fea. 
Than  finge  my  facred  pines.     But  you,  my  charge, 
Loos'd  from  your  crooked  anchors,  launch  at  large. 
Exalted  each  a  nymph :  forfake  the  fand. 
And  fwim  the  feas,  at  Cybele's  command-. 
Ko  fooner  had  the  goddefs  ceas'd  to  fpeak, 
"When  lo,  th'  obedient  ihips  their  haufers  break; 
And,  ftrange  to  tell,  like  dolphins  in  the  main,       145 
They  plunge  their  prows,  and  dive,  and  fpring  again: 
As  many  beauteous  maids  the  billows  fweep. 
As  rode  before  tall  veflels  on  the  deep. 
The  foes  furpriz"d  with  wonder,  flood  aghaft, 
MefTapus  curb'd  his  fiery  courfer's  hafte;  150 

Old  Tiber  roar'd;  and  ra'fmg  up  his  head, 
Calld  back  his  waters  to  their  oozy  bed. 
Turnus  alone,  undaunted,  bore  the  fhock; 
And  with  thefe  words  his  trembling  troops  befpoke : 
Thefe  monfters  for  the  Trojan's  fate  are  meant,      1 5j 
And  are  by  Jove  for  black  prefages  fent, 

5  H< 


j^NEIS.     B  OOK    IX.  275 

He  takes  the  cowards  laft  relief  away;  ■\ 

For  fly  they  cannot;  and,  conftrain'd  to  ftay,  > 

Mull  yield,  unfought,  a  bafe  inglorious  prey.  J 

The  liquid  half  of  all  the  globe  is  loft;  1 60 

Heaven  (huts  the  feas,  and  we  fecure  the  coaft. 
Theirs  is  no  more  than  that  fmall  fpot  of  ground. 
Which  myriads  of  our  martial  men  furround. 
Their  fates  I  fear  not;  or  vain  oracles; 
'Twas  given  to  Venus,  they  Ihouldcrofs  the  feas;   16^ 
And  land  fecure  upon  the  Latian  plains : 
Their  promis'd  hour  is  pafs'd,  and  mine  remains. 
'Tis  in  the  fate  of  Turnus  to  deftroy. 
With  fword  and  fire,  the  faithlefs  race  of  Troy. 
Shall  fuch  affronts  as  thefe  alone  inflame  170 

The  Grecian  brothers,  and  the  Grecian  name  ? 
My  caufe  and  theirs  is  one;  a  fatal  ftrife. 
And  final  ruin,  for  a  ravifhd  wife. 
Was't  not  enough,  that,  punifli'd  for  the  crime, 
They  fell;  but  will  they  fall  a  fecond  time?  17^ 

One  would  have  thought  they  paid  enough  before. 
To  curfe  the  coftly  fex;  and  durft  oifend  no  more. 
Can  they  fecurely  truft  their  feeble  wall, 
A  flight  partition,  a  thin  interval, 
Betv/ixt  their  fate  and  them ;  when  Troy,  though  built 
By  hands  divine,  yet,  perifli'd  by  their  guilt? 
Lend  me,  for  once,  my  friends,  your  valiant  hands. 
To  force  from  out  their  lines  thefe  daftard  bands. 
Lefs  than  a  thoufand  ftiips  will  end  this  war; 
Nor  Vulcan  needs  his  fated  arms  prepare,  1 8^ 

T  2  Let 


576  DRYDEN'S    VIRGILJ 

Let  all  the  Tufcans  all  th'  Arcadians  join. 
Nor  thefe,  nor  thofe,  fhall  fruftrate  my  delign. 
Let  them  not  fear  the  treafons  of  the  night;  T 

The  robb'd  palladium,  the  pretended  fiight:  I 

Our  onfet  fhall  be   made  In  open  light.  1 90  J 

No  wooden  engine  fhall  their  town  betray. 
Fires  they  fhall  have  around,  but  fires  by  day. 
No  Grecian  babes  before  their  camp  appear, 
"Whom  Hedlor's  arms  detained  to  the  tenth  tardy  year. 
Now,  fince  the  fun  is  rolling  to  the  weft,  19^ 

'"Give  me  the  filent  night  to  needful  reft : 
Refrefh  your  bodies,  and  your  arms  prepare: 
The  morn  fhdl  end  the  fmall  remains  of  war. 

The  poft  of  honour  to  MeiTapus  falls. 
To  keep  the  nightly  guard;  to  watch  the  walls;      2C0 
To  pitch  the  fires  at  diftances  around. 
And  clofe  the  Trojans  in  their  fcanty  ground. 
Twice  feven  Rutulian  captains  ready  ftand : 
And  twice  feven  hundred  horfe  their  chiefs  command : 
All  clad  in  fhining  arms  the  works  inveft;  205 

Each  with  a  radiant  helm,  and  waving  creft. 
Stretch'd  at  their  length,  they  prefs  the  graffy  ground ; 
They  laugh,  they  fing,  the  jolly  bowls  go  round  : 
With  lights  and  chearful  fires  renew  the  day ; 
And  pafs  the  wakeful  night  in  feafts  and  play.         21c 

The  Trojans,  from  above,  their  foes  beheld; 
And  with  arm'd  legions  all  the  rampires  fill'd : 
Seiz'd  with  affright,  their  gates  they  firft  explore; 
Join  works  to  works  with  bridges ;  tower  to  tower : 

Thus 


^NEIS.     BOOK    IX.  «77 

Thus  all  things  needful  for  defence  abound ; 

Mneftheus  and  brave  Serefthus  walk  the  round : 

Commiffion'd  by  their  abfent  prince  to  fhare 

The  common  danger,  and  divide  the  care. 

The  foldiers  draw  their  lots;  and,  as  they  fall. 

By  turns  relieve  each  other  on  the  wall.  220 

Nigh  were  the  foes  their  utmoft  guards  advance 
To  watch  the  gate,  was  warlike  Nifus'  chance. 
His  father  Hyrticus  of  noble  blood ; 
His  mother  was  a  huntrefs  of  the  wood; 
And  fent  him  to  the  wars;  well  could  he  bear        22^ 
His  lance  In  fight,  and  dart  the  flying  fpear : 
But,  better  Ikill'd  unerring  fhafts  to  fend, 
Befide  him  flood  Euryalus  his  friend, 
Euryalus,  than  whom  the  Trojan  hoft 
No  fairer  face,  or  fweeter  air  could  boaft.  230 

Scarce  had  the  down  to  fhade  his  cheeks  begun ; 
One  was  their  care,  and  their  delight  was  one. 
One  common  hazard  in  the  war  they  fhar'd; 
And  now  were  both,  by  choice,  upon  the  guard. 

Then  Nifus,  thus :  Or  do  the  gods  infpire  235 

This  warmth,  or  make  we  gods  of  our  defire  ? 
A  generous  ardour  boils  within  my  breail. 
Eager  of  aftion,  enemy  to  reft; 
This  urges  me  to  fight,  and  fires  my  mind. 
To  leave  a  n^morable  name  behind.  240 

Thou  feeft  the  foe  fecure .  how  faintly  (hine 
Their  fcatter'd  fires!  the  moft  in  lleep  fupine 
Along  the  ground,  an  eafy  conqueft  lie ; 
The  wakeful  few  the  flaming  flaggon  ply : 

T  3  All 


} 


57?  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

All  hufli  around.     Now  hear  what  I  revolve;         24^ 

A  thought  unripe,  and  fcarcely  yet  refolve. 

Our  abfent  prince  both  camp  and  council  mourn; 

By  meffage  both  would  haften  his  return: 

If  they  confer  what  I  demand  on  thee 

(For  fame  is  recompence  enough  for  me),  2^0 

Methinks  beneath  yon  hill,  I  have  efpy'd 

A  way  that  fafely  will  my  paflage  guide. 

Euryalus  flood  liftening  while  he  fpoke ; 

With  love  of  praife,  and  noble  envy  ftruck; 

Then  to  his  ardent  friend  expos'd  his  mind ;       2^^ 

All  this  alone,  and  leaving  me  behind. 

Am  I  unworthy,  Nifus,  to  be  join'd  ? 

Think'ft  thou  I  can  my  Ihare  of  glory  yield. 

Or  fend  thee  unaflifted  to  the  field  ? 

Not  fo  my  father  taught  my  childhood  arras 5  260 

Born  in  a  fiege,  and  bred  among  alarms ; 

Nor  is  my  youth  unworthy  of  my  friend^ 

Nor  of  the  heaven-born  hero  I  attend. 

The  thing  call'd  life,  with  eafe  I  can  difclaim; 

And  think  it  over-fold  to  purchafe  fame.  26^ 

Then  Nifus,  thus :  Alas !  thy  tender  years 
Would  minifter  new  matter  to  my  fears : 
So  may  the  gods,  who  view  this  friendly  ftrife, 
Reftore  me  to  thy  lov'd  embrace  with  life, 
Condemn'd  to  pay  my  vows  (as  fure  I  truft)  2 70 

This  thy  requefl  is  cruel  and  unjuft. 
But  if  fome  chance,  as  many  chances  are. 
And  doubtful  hazards  in  the  deeds  of  war^ 

If 


^NEIS.     BOOK    IX.  279 

If  one  fliould  reach  my  head,  there  let  it  fall. 

And  fpare  thy  life;  I  would  not  perifh  all.  275 

Thy  bloomy  youth  deferves  a  longer  date; 

Live  thou  to  mourn  thy  love's  unhappy  fate : 

To  bear  my  mangled  body  from  the  foe; 

Or  buy  it  back,  and  funeral  rites  bellow. 

Or,  if  hard  fortune  Ihall  thofe  dues  deny,  280 

Thou  canll  at  leaft  an  empty  tomb  fapply, 

O  let  me  not  the  widow's  tears  renew; 

Kor  let  a  mother's  curfe  my  name  purfuej 

Thy  pious  parent,  who,  for  love  of  thee, 

Forfook  the  coalls  of  friendly  Sicily,  28j^ 

Her  ao-e  committing-  to  the  Teas  and  wind. 

When  every  weary  matron  Raid  behind. 

To  this  Euryalus :    You  plead  in  vain. 

And  but  protract  the  caufe  you  cannot  gain : 

Ko  more  delays,  but  haile.     With  that  he  wakes    290 

The  nodding  watch;  each  to  his  office  takes. 

The  guard  reliev'd,  the  generous  couple  went 

To  find  the  council  at  the  royal  tenf. 

All  creatures  elfe  forgot  their  daily  care; 

And  fleep,   the  common  gift  of  nature,  fliare:        29^ 

Except  the  Trojan  peers,  v.ho  wakeful  fate 

In  nightly  council  for  th'  endanger'd  f.ate. 

They  vote  a  meifage  to  their  abfent  chief; 

Shew  their  diftrefs,  and  beg  a  fwift  relief. 

Amid  the  camp  a  filent  feat  they  chofe,  300 

Remote  their  clamour,  and  fccure  from  foes. 

On  their  left  arms  their  ample  Ihields  they  bear. 

Their  right  reclin'd  upon  the  bending  fpear. 

T  4  Now 


28o  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

iKow  Nifus  and  his  friend  approach  the  guard,         T 

And  beg  admiffion,  eager  to  be  heard;  305  \- 

Th'  affair  important,,  not  to  be  deferr'd.  J 

Afcanius  bids  them  be  conduced  in ; 

Ordering  the  more  experienc'd  to  begin. 

Then  Nifus  thus :   Ye  fathers,  lend  your  ears. 

Nor  judge  our  bold  attempt  beyond  our  years.        310 

The  foe,  fecurely  drench'd  in  fleep  and- wine, 

Negleft  their  watch;  the  fires  but  thinly  fhine; 

And  where  the  fmoke  in  cloudy  vapours  flies. 

Covering  the  plain,  and  curling  to  the  ikies. 

Betwixt  two  paths,  which  at  the  gate  divide,     315  T 

Clofe  by  the  fea,  a  paffage  v/e  have  fpy'd,  > 

Which  will  our  way  to  great  JEnesLS  guide.  J 

Expeft  each  hour  to  fee  him  fafe  again. 

Loaded  with  fpoils  of  foes  in  battle  llain. 

Snatch  we  the  lucky  minute  while  we  may:  320 

Nor  can  we  be  miftaken  in  the  way; 

For,  hunting  in  the  vales,  we  both  have  feen 

The  rifmg  turrets,  and  the  {Iream  between : 

And  know  the  winding  courfe,  with  every  ford. 

He  ceas'd:  and  old  Alethes  took  the  word.  32^ 

Our  country  gods,  in  whom  our  trufl  we  place 

Will  yet  from  ruin  fave  the  Trojan  race : 

While  we  behold  fuch  dauntlefs  worth  appear 

In  dawning  youth,  and  fouls  fo  void  of  fear. 

Then  into  tears  of  joy  the  father  broke;  330 

Each  in  his  longing  arms  by  turns  he  took : 

Panted,  and  paus'd;  and  thus  again  he  fpoke: 

Ye 


} 


^NEIS.     BOOK    IX.  aSr 

Ye  brave  young  men,  what  equal  gifts  can  we. 
In  reccmpence  of  fuch  defert,  decree? 
The  greateft  fure,  and  beft  you  can  receive,  35^ 

The  gods,  and  your  own  confcious  worth,  will  give. 
The  reil  our  grateful  general  will  beftow; 
And  young  Afcanius  till  his  manhood  owe. 
And  I,  whofe  welfare  in  my  father  lies, 
Afcanius  adds,  by  the  great  deities,  340 

By  my  dear  country,  by  my  houfhold-gods. 
By  hoary  Vefta's  rites,  and  dark  abodes. 
Adjure  you  both  (on  you  my  fortune  Hands, 
That  and  my  faith  I  plight  into  your  hands) ; 
Make  me  but  happy  in  his  fafe  return,  345" 

Whofe  wonted  prefence  I  can  only  mourn. 
Your  common  gift  Ihall-two  large  goblets  be. 
Of  lilver,  wrought  with  curious  imagery; 
And  high  embofs'd,  which,  Vvhen  old  Priam  reign 'd. 
My  conquering  fire  at  fack'd  Arriba  gain'd.  350 

And  more,  two  tripods  call  in  antique  mould. 
With  two  great  talents  of  the  fineft  gold : 
Befide  a  coftly  bowl,  ingrav'd  with  art. 
Which  Dido  gave  when  firft  ihe  gave  her  heart. 
But  if  in  conquer'd  Italy  we  reign,  35^ 

When  fpoils  by  lot  the  vidor  Ihall  obtain,. 
Thou  faw'ft  the  courfer  by  proud  Turnus  prefs'd. 
That,  Nifus,  and  his  arms,  and  nodding  creft. 
And  fhield,  from  chance  exempt,  fliall  be  thy  fhare; 
Twelve  labouring  flaves,  twelve  handmaids  young 

and  fair. 
And  clad  in  rich  attire,  and  traia'd  with  care. 

And 


ii8a  r>RYDEN'S    VIRGIL; 

And  laft,  a  Latlan  field  with  fruitful  plains. 

And  a  large  portion  of  the  king's  domains. 

But  thou,  whofe  years  are  more  to  mine  ally'd. 

No  fate  my  vow'd  aftedion  (hall  divide  36^ 

From  thee,  heroic  youth;  be  wholly  mine: 

Take  full  pofTefTion;  all  my  foul  is  thine. 

One  faith,  one  fame,  one  fate,  fhall  both  attend; 

My  life's  companion,  and  my  bcfom  friend; 

My  peace  fhall  be  committed  to  thy  care,  370 

And  to  thy  condudl  my  concerns  in  war. 

Then  thus  the  young  Euryalus  reply'd: 
Whatever  fortune,  good  or  bad,  betide. 
The  fame  fhall  be  my  age,  as  now  my  youth; 
No  tim,e  fhall  find  me  wanting  to  my  truth,  37^ 

This  only  from  your  goodnefs  let  me  gain 
(And  this  ungranted,  all  rewards  are  vain): 
Of  Priam's  royal  race  my  mother  came. 
And  fure  the  beft  that  ever  bore  the  name: 
"Whom  neither  Troy,  nor  Sicily  could  hold  310 

From  me  departing,  but,  o'erfpent,  and  old. 
My  fate  fhe  follow'd ;  ignorant  of  this. 
Whatever  danger,  neither  parting  kifs. 
Nor  pious  bleffing  taken,  her  I  leave; 
And,  in  this  only  aft  of  all  my  life  deceive.  38^ 

By  this  right  hand,  and  confcious  night,  I  fwear. 
My  foul  fo  fad  a  farewell  could  not  bear. 
Be  you  her  comfort;  fill  my  vacant  place 
(Permit  me  to  prefume  fo  great  a  grace). 
Support  her  age,  forfaken  and  diftrefs'd;  390 

That  hope  alone  will  fortify  my  breaft 

Againft 


JENEIS.     BOOK    Vni.  233 

Againfi:  the  word  of  fortunes,  and  of  fears. 

He  faid:   the  mov'd  affillants  melt  in  tears. 

Then  thus  Afcanius  (wonder-ftruck  to  fee 

That  image  of  his  filial  piety) :  29^ 

So  great  beginnings,  in  fo  green  an  age, 

Exaft  the  faith,  which  I  again  engage. 

Thy  mother  all  the  dues  Ihall  juftly  claim 

Creufa  had  ;  and  only  want  the  name. 

Whate'er  event  thy  bold  attempt  fhall  have,  400 

'Tis  merit  to  have  borne  a  fon  fo  brave. 

Now  by  my  head,  a  facred  oath,  I  fwear, 

(My  father  us'd  it)  what  returning  here 

Crown'd  with  fuccefs,  I  for  thyfelf  prepare. 

That,  if  thou  fail,  fhall  thy  lov'd  mother  fhare.     40^ 

He  faid  ;  and,  weeping  while  he  fpoke  the  word^ 
From  his  broad  belt  he  drew  a  fhining  fword. 
Magnificent  with  gold.     Lycaon  made. 
And  in  an  ivory  fcabbard  flieath'd  the  blade  : 
This  was  his  gift :  great  Mneftheus  gave  his  friend 
A  lion's  hide,  his  body  to  defend  : 
And  good  Alethes  furnifh'd  him  befide. 
With  his  own  trufty  helm,  of  temper  try'd. 

Thus  arm'd  they  went.     The  noble  Trojans  wait 
Their  ifTuing  forth,  and  follow  to  the  gate.  41^ 

With  prayers  and  vows,  above  the  reft  appears 
Afcanius,  manly  far  beyond  his  years. 
And  meffages  committed  to  their  care, 
Vi'hich  all  in  winds  were  loft,  and  flitting  air. 

The  trenches  firft  they  pafs'd;  then  took  their  way 
Where  their  proud  foes  in  pitch  "d  pavilions  lay ; 

To 


it4  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

To  many  fatal,  ere  themfelves  were  llain : 

They  found  the  carelefs  hoft  difpers'd  upon  the  plain. 

Who,  gorg'd,   and  drunk  with  wine,  fupinely  fnore : 

Unharnafs'd  chariots  Hand  along  the  fnore:  425" 

Amidft  the  wheels  and  reins,  the  goblet  by, 

A  medley  of  debauch  and  war  they  lie. 

Obferving  Nifus  Ihew'd  his  friend  the  fight^- 

Behold  a  conqueft  gain'd  without  a  fight. 

Gccafion  offers,  and  I  Hand  prepar'd;  43C^ 

There  lies  our  way ;  be  thou  upon  the  guard. 

And  look  around,  while  I  fecurely  go. 

And  hew  a  paffage  through  the  fleeping  foe. 

Softly  he  fpoke;  then,  flriding,  took  his  way. 

With  his  drawn  fword,  where  haughty  Rhamnes  lay: 

His  head  rais'd  high,  on  tapeftry  beneath. 

And  heaving  from  his  breafl,  he  drew  his  breath  : 

A  king  and  prophet  by  king  Turnus  lov'd; 

Bat  fate  by  prefcience  cannot  be  remov'd; 

Him,  and  his  fleeping  flaves,  he  flew.  Then  fpies     440 

Where  Rhemus,  with  his  rich  retinue,  lies ; 

His  armour-bearer  firfl,  and  next  he  kills 

His  charioteer,  intrench'd  betwixt  the  wheels : 

And  his  lov'd  horfes :  lafl  invades  their  lord; 

Full  on  his  neck  he  drives  the  fatal  fword  :  44^ 

The  gafping  head  Hies  off;  a  purple  flood 

Flows  from  the  trunk,  that  welters  in  the  blood : 

Which,  by  the  fpurning  heels,  difpers'd  around. 

The  bed  befprinkles,  and  bedews  the  ground, 

Lamus  the  bold,  and  Lamyrus  the  ftrong,  4-^0 

He  flew ;  and  then  Serranus  fair  and  young. 

From 


^NE  IS.     BOOK    VIII.  285 

From  dice  and  wine  the  youth  retir'd  to  reft. 
And  puff'd  the  fumy  god  from  out  his  breaft: 
Ev'n  then  he  dreamt  of  drink  and  lucky  play; 
More  lucky  had  it  lafted  till  the  day.  45 j; 

The  famifh'd  lion  thus,  with  hunger  bold, 
O'erleaps  the  fences  of  the  nightly  fold; 
And  tears  the  peaceful  flocks;  with  filent  awe 
Trembling  they  lie,  and  pant  beneath  his  paw. 

Nor  with  lefs _rage  Euryalus  employs  460 

The  wrathful  fword,  cr  fewer  foes  deflroys,: 
But  on  th'  ignoble  crowd  his  fury  flew : 
He  Fadus,  Hebefus,   and  Rhastus  flew. 
Opprefs'd  with  heavy  fleep  the  former  fall. 
But  Rhaetus,  wakeful,  and  obfer^  ing  all,  465 

Behind  a  fpacious  jar  he  flink'd  for  fear: 
The  fatal  iron  found,  and  reach"d  him  there. 
For,  as  he  rofe,  it  pierc'd  his  naked  fide. 
And,  reeking,  thence  return'd  in  crimfon  dy'd. 
The  wound  pours  out  a  fl:ream  of  wine  and  blood:  470 
The  purple  foul  comes  floating  in  the  flood. 

Now  where  Meflfapus  quarter'd  they  arrive; 
The  fires  were  fainting  there,  and  jufl:  alive. 
The  warrior-horfes  tied  in  order  fed ; 
Kifus  obferv'd  the  difcipline,  and  faid,  .475 

Our  eager  thirfl:  of  blood  may  both  betray; 
And  fee  the  fcatter'd  ftreaks  of  dawning  day. 
Foe  to  nofturnal  thefts  :  no  more,  my  friend. 
Here  let  our  glutted  execution  end; 
A  lane  through  flaughter'd  bodies  we  have  made :     480 
The  bold  Euryalus,  though  loth,  obey'd. 

Of 


385  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Of  arms,  and  arras,  and  of  plate  they  find 
A  precious  load;  but  thefe  they  leave  behind. 
Yet,  fond  of  gaudy  fpoils,  the  boy  would  ftay  T 

To  make  the  rich  caparifon  his  prey,  485  > 

Which  on  the  fteed  of  conquer"d  Rhamnes  lay,  J 

Nor  did  his  eyes  lefs  longingly  behold 
The  girdle  belt,  with  nails  of  burnifn'd  gold. 
This  prefent  Cedicus  the  rich  beilow'd 
On  Remulus,  when  friendfliip  firft  they  vow'd :      490 
And  abfent,  join'd  in  hofpitable  ties; 
He  dying,  to  his  heir  bequeath'd  the  prize: 
Till  by  the  conquering  Ardean  troops  opprefs'd. 
He  fell;  and  they  the  glorious  gift  polTefs'd. 
Thefe  glittering  fpoils  (now  made  the  viclor's  gain) 
He  to  his  body  fuits;  but  fuits  in  vain. 
Meffapus'  helm  he  finds  among  the  reft. 
And  laces  on,  and  wears  the  waving  creft. 
Proud  of  their  conqueft,  prouder  of  their  prey. 
They  leave  the  camp,  and  take  the  ready  vvay.        50O 
But  far  they  had  not  pafs'd,  before  they  fpyd 
Three  hundred  horfe  with  Volfcens  for  their  guide. 
The  queen  a  legion  to  king  Turnus  fent. 
But  the  fwift  horfe  the  flower  foot  prevent : 
And  now,  advancing,  fought  the  leader's  tent.     505 
They  faw  the  pair ;  for  through  the  doubtful  fhade 
His  Ihining  helm  Euryalus  betray'd. 
On  which  the  moon  with  full  reflexion  play'd. 
'Tis  not  for  nought,  cry'd  Volfcens,  from  the  crowd, 
Thefe  men  go  there  3  then  rais'd  his  voice  aloud :    510 

Stand, 


} 
} 


^NEIS.      BOOK     Vlir.  2S7 

^tand,  ftand:  why  thus  In  arms,  and  whither  bent: 
From  whence,  to  whom,  and  on  what  errand  fent? 
Silent  they  feud  away,  and  haPce  their  flight 
To  neighbouring  woods,  and  trull  themfelves  to  night. 
The  fpeedy  horfe  all  paiTages  belay,  j  i  c 

And  fpur  their  fmoking  fteeds  to  crofs  their  way; 
And  watch  each  entrance  of  the  winding  wood  ; 
Black  was  the  foreft,  thick  with  beech  it  ftood; 
Horrid  Vv'ith  fern,  and  intricate  with  thorn. 
Pew  paths  of  human  feet  or  tracks  of  beafts  were  worn* 
The  darknefs  of  the  Ihades,  his  heavy  prey. 
And  fear  mifled  the  younger  from  his  way, 
But  NIfus  hit  the  turns  with  happier  hafte. 
And,  thoughtlefs  of  his  friend,  the  foreft  pafs'd: 
And  Alban  plains,  from  Alba's  name  fo  call'd,       r 2  f 
Where  king  Latinus  then  his  oxen  ftall'd. 
Till,  turning  at  the  length,  he  ftood  his  ground. 
And  mifs'd  his  friend,  and  caft  his  eyes  around : 
Ah  wretch,  he  cry'd,  where  have  I  left  behind 
Th'  unhappy  youth:  where  fhail  I  hope  to  find?     ^^o 
Or  what  way  take!     Again  he  ventures  back: 
And  treads  the  mazes  of  his  former  track. 
He  winds  the  wood,  and  liftening  hears  the  noife 
Of  trampling  courfers,  and  the  rider's  voice. 
The  found  approach "d,  and  fuddenly  he  view'd      C3  r 
The  foes  inclofmg,  and  his  friend  purfu'd : 
Forelay'd  and  taken,  while  he  ftrove  in  vain. 
The  fnelter  of  the  friendly  fhades  to  gain. 
What  fnould  he  next  attempt  ?  What  arms  employ  ? 
What  fruitlefs  force  to  free  the  captive  boy;  540 

Or 


282  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Or  defperate  fhould  he  rufh  and  lofe  his  life. 
With  odds  opprefs,  in  fuch  unequal  ftrife? 
Kefoh  'd  at  length,  his  pointed  fpear  he  took ; 
And  calling  on  the  moon  a  mournful  look. 
Guardian  of  groves,  and  goddefs  of  the  night,       54^ 
Pair  queen,  he  faid,  direct  my  dart  aright; 
If  e'er  my  pious  father  for  my  fake. 
Did  erateful  oiTerino^s  on  thy  altars  make ; 
Or  I  increas'd  them  with  my  fylvan  toils. 
And  hung  the  holy  roofs  with  favage  fpoils. 
Give  me  to  fcatter  thefe.     Then  from  his  ear 
He  pois'd,  and  aimd,  and  launch'd  the  trembling  fpear. 
The  deadly  weapon,  hilling  from  the  grove. 
Impetuous  on  the  back  of  Sulmo  drove; 
Pierca  his  thin  armour,  drank  his  vital  blood,      ^^^ 
And  in  his  body  left  the  broken  vvood^ 
He  ftaggers  round ;  his  eye-balls  roll  in  death. 
And  with  fhort  fobs  he  gafps  away  his  breath. 
All  Hand  amaz'd  ;  a  fecond  javelin  flies 
With  equal  llrength,  and  quivers  through  the  Ikies : 
This  through  thy  temples,  Tagus,  forc'd  the  way. 
And  in  the  brain-pan  warmly  buried  lay. 
Fierce  Volfcens  foams  with  rage,  and  gazing  round, 
Defcry'd  not  him  who  gave  the  fatal  wound: 
Kor  knew  to  fix  revenge  :  But  thou,  he  cries,        565 
Shalt  pay  for  both,  and  at  the  prifoner  flies 
With  his  drawn  fword.  Then  ftruck  with  deep  defpair. 
That  cruel  fight  the  lover  could  not  bear ; 
But  from  his  covert  rufh'd  in  open  view, 
j^nd  fent  his  voice  before  him  as  he  flew.;  570 

Me, 


^  N  E  I  S.      B  O  O  K     IX.  a29 

Me,  me,  he  cry'd,  turn  all  your  fwords  alone 

On  me;  the  fa<^  confefs'd,  the  fault  my  own. 

He  neither  could  nor  durft,  the  guiltlefs  youth ; 

Ye  moon  and  ftars,  bear  witnefs  to  the  truth! 

His  only  crime  (if  friendfnip  can  offend)  575 

Is  too  much  love  to  his  unhappy  friend. 

Too  late  he  fpeaks;  the  fword,  which  fury  guides. 

Driven  with  full  force,  had  pierc'd  his  tender  fides. 

Down  fell  the  beauteous  youth;  the  yawning  wound 

Gulh'd  out  a  purple  ftream,  and  ftain'd  the  ground. 

His  fnowy  neck  reclines  upon  his  bread. 

Like  a  fair  flower  by  the  keen  fhaie  opprefs'd; 

Like  a  white  poppy  fmking  on  the  plain, 

Whofe  heavy  head  is  overcharg'd  with  rain. 

Defpair,  and  rage,  and  vengeance  juftly  vow'd,      585 

Drove  Nifus  headlong  on  the  hoftile  crov/d  : 

Voifcens  he  feeks :  on  him  alone  he  bends ; 

Borne  back,  and  bor'd,  by  his  furrounding  friends. 

Onward  he  prefs'd ;  and  kept  him  ftill  in  fight ; 

Then  whirl'd  aloft  his  fword  with  all  his  might:    590 

'Ih'  unerring  Heel  defcended  while  he  fpoke 

Pierc'd   his   wide  mouth,   and   through   his   weazen 

broke : 
D}  ing  he  flew ;  and,  ftaggering  on  the  plain, 
"V^'ith  fwimming  eyes  he  fought  his  lover  flain: 
Then  quiet  on  his  bleeding  bofom  fell;  59^ 

Content  in  death  to  be  reveng'd  fo  well. 

O  happy  friends!  for,  if  my  verfe  can  give 
Immortal  life,  your  fame  fliall  ever  live; 

Vol.  XXIII,  U  Fix'd 


290  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Fix'd  as  the  capitol's  foundation  lies; 

And  fpread  where'er  the  Roman  eagle  flies!  6oo 

The  conquering  party  firft  divide  the  prey. 
Then  their  flain  leader  to  the  camp  convey. 
With  wonder,  as  they  went,  the  troops  were  fill'd. 
To  fee  fuch  numbers  whom  fo  few  had  kiil'd. 
Serranus,  Rhamnes,  and  the  reft  they  found:     605 'j 
Vaft  crowds  the  dying  and  the  dead  furround :  l 

And  the  yet  reeking  blood  o'erfiows  the  ground.       J 
All  knew  the  helmet  which  Mefiapus  loft; 
But  mourn'd  a  purchafe  that  fo  dear  had  coft. 
Now  rofe  the  ruddy  morn  from  Tithon's  bed;        610 
And,  with  the  dawn  of  day,  the  Ikies  o'erfpread. 
Nor  long  the  fun  his  daily  courfe  withheld. 
But  added  colours  to  the  world  reveal'd. 
When  early  Tumus,  wakening  with  the  light. 
All  clad  in  armour,  calls  his  troops  to  fight.  61  ^ 

His  martial  men  with  fierce  harangues  he  fir'd ; 
And  his  own  ardour  in  their  fouls  infpir'd. 
This  done,  to  give  new  terror  to  his  foes. 
The  heads  of  Nifus,  and  his  friend  he  Ihows, 
Rais'd  high  on  pointed  fpears:  a  ghaftly  fight;       620 
Loud  peals  of  ftiouts  enfue,  and  barbarous  delight. 

Meantime  the  Trojans  run,  where  danger  calls : 
They  line  their  trenches,  and  they  man  their  walls ; 
In  front  extended  to  the  left  they  ftood : 
Safe  was  the  right  furrounded  by  the  flood.  625 

But  cafting  from  their  towers  a  frightful  view. 
They  faw  the  faces  which  too  well  they  knew; 

5  Though 


JEN  E  IS.     BOOK    IX.  291 

Though  then  difguis'd  in  death,  and  fmear'd  all  o'er 

With  filth  obfcene,  and  dropping  putrid  gore. 

Soon  hafty  fame,  through  the  fad  city  bears  630 

The  mournful  meffage  to  the  mother's  ears: 

An  icy  cold  benumbs  her  limbs :  {he  fhakes : 

Her  cheeks  the  blood,  her  hand  the  web  forfakes. 

She  runs  the  rampires  round  amidft  the  war,  "i 

Nor  fears  the  flying  darts :  fhe  rends  her  hair,   6^:  > 

And  fills  with  loud  laments  the  liquid  air,  J 

Thus  then,  my  lov'd  Eurvalus  appears! 

Thus  looks  the  prop  of  my  declining  years! 

Was  't  on  this  face  my  famifh'd  eyes  I  fed! 

Ah  how  unlike  the  living  is  the  dead !  640 

And  could'fc  thou  leave  me,  cruel,  thus  alone. 

Not  one  kind  kifs  from  a  departing  fon! 

Xo  lock,  no  laft  adieu  before  he  went. 

In  an  ill-boding  hour  to  flaughter  fent! 

Cold  on  the  ground,. and  preffing  foreign  clay,       645 

To  Latian  dogs  and  fowls  he  lies  a  prey! 

Nor  was  I  near  to  clofe  his  dying  eyes. 

To  wafli  his  wounds,  to  weep  his  obfequles : 

To  call  about  his  corpfe  his  crying  friends. 

Or  fpread  the  mantle  (made  for  other  ends)  650 

On  his  dear  body,  which  I  wove  with  care. 

Nor  did  my  daily  pains,  or  nightly  labour  fpare. 

Where  (hall  I  find  his  corpfe  ?  What  earth  fuilains 

His  trunk  difmember'd,  and  his  cold  remains  ? 

For  this,  alas!  I  left  my  needful  eafe,  6c C 

Expos'd  my  life  to  winds,  and  winter  feas ! 

V  z  If 


a9*  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

If  any  pity  touch  Rutulian  hearts, 

Here  empty  all  your  quivers,  all  your  darts: 

Or  if  they  fail,  thou  Jove  conclude  my  woe. 

And  fend  me  thunder-ftruck  to  (hades  below !         660 

Her  (hritk^  and  clamours  pierce  the  Trojans  ears. 
Unman  their  courage,  and  augment  their  fears : 
Nor  yourig  Afcanius  could  the  fight  fuftain. 
Nor  old  Ilioneus  his  tears  reftrain : 
But  Aftor  and  Idaeus,  jointly  fent,  66^ 

To  bear  the  m.adding  mother  to  her  tent. 
And  now  the  trumpets,  terribly  from  far, 
With  rattling  clangor,  rouze  the  fleepy  %var. 
The  foldiers  Ihouts  fucceed  the  brazen  founds 
And  heaven,  from  pole  to  pole,  their  noife  rebounds. 
The  Volfcians  bear  their  fhields  upon  their  head,   671 
And,  rufhing  forward,  form  a  moving  fhed; 
Thefe  fill  the  ditch:  thofe  pull  the  bulwarks  down: 
Some  raife  the  ladders ;  others  fcale  the  town. 
But  where  void  fpaces  on  the  walls  appear,  675 

Or  thin  defence,  they  pour  their  forces  there. 
With  poles  and  miffive  weapons,  from  afar. 
The  Trojans  keep  aloof  the  rifing  war. 
Taught  by  their  ten  years  fiege  defenfive  fight. 
They  roll  down  ribs  of  rocks,  and  unrefifted  weight: 
To  break  the  penthoufe  with  the  ponderous  blow; 
Which  yet  the  patient  Volfcians  undergo. 
But  could  not  bear  th'  unequal  combat  long ; 
For  where  the  Trojans  find  the  thickeft  throng. 
The  ruin  falls :  their  Ihatter'd  fhields  give  way,      685 
And  their  cruih'd  heads  became  an  eafy  prey. 

They 


^NEIS.     B  0  0  K    IX.  953 

They  (hrink  for  fear,  abated  of  their  rage, 

Kor  longer  dare  in  a  blind  fight  engage  ; 

Contented  now  to  gall  them  from  below 

With  darts  and  flings,  and  with  the  diftant  bow,    690 

Elfewhere  Mezentius,  terrible  to  view, 
A  blazing  pine  within  the  trenches  threw. 
But  brave  Meffapus,  Neptune's  warlike  fon,  "| 

Broke  down  the  palifades,  the  trenches  v.on,  > 

And  loud  for  ladders  calls  to  fcale  the  town.       695  J 

Calliope  begin :  ye  facred  nine, 
Infpire  your  poet  in  his  high  defign; 
To  ling  what  flaughter  manly  Tumus  made : 
What  fouls  he  fent  below  the  Stygian  (hade : 
What  fame  the  foldiers  with  their  captain  (hare,     700 
And  the  vaft  circuit  of  the  fatal  war. 
For  you  in  linging  martial  fads  excel; 
You  bed  remember;  and  alone  can  tell. 

There  flood  a  tower,  amazing  to  the  fight. 
Built  up  of  beams;  and  of  ftupendous  height;         705 
Art,  and  the  nature  of  the  place,  confpir'd 
To  furnifh  all  the  ftrength  that  war  requir"d. 
To  level  this,  the  bold  Italians  join ; 
The  wary  Trojans  obviate  their  defign : 
With  weighty  ftones  o'erwheIm"d  their  troops  below. 
Shoot  through  the  loop-holes,  and  fharp  javelins  throw. 
Tumus,  the  chief,  tofs'd  from  his  thundering  hand, 
Againft  the  wooden  walls,  a  flaming  brand: 
It  ftuck,  the  fiery  plague :  the  winds  were  high; 
The  planks  were  feafon'd,  and  the  timber  dry.      715: 

U  3  Contagion 


»9+  PRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Contagion  caught  the  pofts :  it  fpread  along, 
Scorch'd,  and  to  diilance  drove  the  fcatter'd  throng. 
The  Trojans  fled ;  the  fire  purfu"d  amain. 
Still  gathering  faft  upon  the  trembling  train ; 
Till,  crowding  to  the  corners  of  the  wall,  720 

Down  the  defence,  and  the  defenders  fall. 
The  mighty  flaw  makes  heaven  itfelf  refound. 
The  dead  and  dying  Trojans  ftrew  the  ground. 
The  tower  that  follow 'd  on  the  fallen  crew, 
Whelm'd  o'er  their  heads,  and  bury'd  whom  it  flevv*: 
Some  lluck  upon  the  darts  themfelves  had  fent; 
All  the  fame  equal  ruin  underwent. 

Young  Lycus  and  Helenor  only  'fcape ; 
Sav'd  how  they  know  not,  from  the  lleepy  leap, 
Helenor,  elder  of  the  two ;  by  birth,  730 

On  one  fide  royal,  one  a  fon  of  earth. 
Whom,  to  the  Lydian  king,  Lycimnia  bare,  "| 

And  fent  her  boafted  baftard  to  the  war  > 

A  privilege  which  none  but  freemen  fhare).  J 

Slight  were  his  arms,  a  fword  and  filver  fhield,       735' 
No  marks  of  honour  charg'd  its  empty  field. 
Light  as  he  fell,  fo  light  the  youth  arofe. 
And,  rifmg,  found  himfelf  amidft  his  foes. 
Kor  flight  was  left,  nor  hopes  to  force  his  way; 
Embolden'd  by  defpair,  he  flood  at  bay :  740 

And  like  a  flag,  whom  all  the  troop  furrounds 
Of  eager  huntfmen,  and  invading  hounds, 
Refolv'd  on  death,  he  diflipates  his  fears. 

And  bounds  aloft  againft  the  pointed  fpears : 

So 


^NEIS.     BOOK    IX,  295 

So  dares  the  youth,  fecure  of  death,  and  throws    745 
His  dying  body  on  his  thickeft  foes. 

But  Lycus,  fwifter  of  his  feet  by  far. 
Runs,  doubles,  winds,  and  turns,  amidft  the  v*'ar : 
Springs  to  the  walls,  and  leaves  his  foes  behind. 
And  fnatches  at  the  beam  he  iirft  can  find.  750 

Looks  up,  and  leaps  aloft  at  all  the  ftretch. 
In  hopes  the  helping  hand  of  fome  kind  friend  to  reach. 
But  Turnus  follow 'd  hard  his  hunted  prey 
( His  fpear  had  almoft  reach'd  him  in  the  way. 
Short  of  his  reins,  and  fcarce  a  fpan  behind) :         7^5* 
Fool,  faid  the  chief,  though  fleeter  than  the  wind, 
Could'ft  thou  prefume  to  'fcape  when  I  purfue? 
He  faid,  and  downward  by  the  feet  he  drew 
The  trembling  daftard:   at  the  tug  he  falls, 
Vafl  ruins  come  along,  rent  from  the  fmoking  walls. 
Thus  on  fome  filver  fwan,  or  timorous  hare,  761 

Jove's  bird  comes  foufing  down  from  upper  air; 
Her  crooked  talons  trufs  the  fearful  fray . 
Then  out  of  fight  ihe  foars,  and  wings  her  way. 
So  feizes  the  grim  wolf  the  tender  lamb,  76c 

In  vain  lamented  by  the  bleating  dam. 

Then  rufhing  onward,  with  a  barbarous  cry. 
The  troops  of  Turnus  to  the  combat  fly. 
The  ditch  with  faggots  fiUd,  the  daring  foe 
Tofs'd  firebrands  to  the  fteepy  turrets  throw.  770 

Hilioneus,  as  bold  Lucetius  came 
To  force  the  gate,  and  feed  the  kindling  flame, 
Roll'd  down  the  fragment  of  a  rock  fo  right. 
It  crulh'd  him  double  underneath  the  weight. 

U  4  Two 


296  DR  YD  EN'S    VIRGIL. 

Two  more  young  Liger  and  Afylas  flev,-;  7751 

To  bend  the  bow  young  Liger  better  knew  :  V- 

Afylas  bed  the  pointed  ja^•elin  threw.  J 

Brave  Csneas  laid  Ortygius  on  the  plain; 

The  viftor  Csneas  was  by  Turnus  flain. 

By  the  fame  hand,  Clonius  and  Itys  faJl,  780 

Sagar  and  Ida,  (landing  on  the  wall. 

From  Capys'  arms  his  fate  Privernus  found  j 

Hurt  by  ThemiUa  firft;  but  flight  trie  wound; 

His  fliield  thrown  by,  to  mitigate  the  fmart. 

He  clapp'd  his  hand  upon  the  wounded  part:         78^ 

The  fecond  fliaft  came  fwift  and  unefpy'd. 

And  pierc'd  his  hand,  and  nail'd  it  to  his  fide: 

Transfixed  his  breathing  lungs,  and  beating  heart; 

The  foul  came  iffuing  out,  and  lufs'd  againft  the  dart» 

The  fon  of  Arcens  fhone  amid  the  reft,  790 

In  glittering  armour  and  a  purple  veft. 
Fair  was  his  face,  his  eyes  infpiring  love. 
Bred  by  his  father  in  the  Martian  grove : 
Where  the  fat  altars  of  Palicus  flame. 
And  fent  in  arms  to  purchafe  early  fame.  79^ 

Him  when  he  fpy'd  from  far,  the  Thufcan  king 
Laid  by  the  lance,  and  took  him  to  the  fling : 
Thrice  whirl'd  the  thong  around  his  head,  and  threw: 
The  heated  lead  half  melted  as  it  flew : 
It  pierc'd  his  hollow  temples  and  his  brain;  Soa 

The  youth  came  tumbling  down,  and  fpum'd  the  plain. 

Then  young  Afcanius,  who  before  this  day 
Was  wont  in  woods  to  flioot  the  favage  prey, 

Firft 


^  N  E  I  S.     BOOK    IX.  297 

Firft  bent  in  martial  ftrife  the  twanging  bow ; 

And  exercis'd  againft  a  human  foe.  803: 

With  this  bereft  Numanus  of  his  life. 

Who  Turnus'  younger  filler  took  to  wife. 

Proud  of  his  realm,  and  of  his  royal  bride. 

Vaunting  before  his  troops,  and  iengthen'd  with  a 

a  ilride. 

In  thefe  infulting  terms  the  Trojans  he  defy'd;  810  - 
Twice  conquer'd  cowards,  now  your  fhame  is  fliown> 
Coop'd  up  a  fecond  time  within  your  townl 
Who  dare  not  iffue  forth  in  open  field. 
But  hold  your  walls  before  you  for  a  fhield. 
Thus  threat  you  war,  thus  our  alliance  force!        81^ 
Vv'hat  gods,  what  madnefs  hither  fceer'd  your  courfe  I 
You  (hall  net  find  the  fons  of  Atreus  here. 
Nor  need  the  frauds  of  fly  Ulyfles  fear. 
Strong  from  the  cradle,  of  a  fturdy  brood. 
We  bear  our  new-born  infants  to  the  flood ;  82a 

There  bath'd  amid  the  llream,  our  boys  we  hold, 
W^ith  winter  harden'd,  and  inur'd  to  cold. 
They  wake  before  the  day  to  range  the  wood. 
Kill  ere  they  eat,  nor  tafte  unconquer'd  food. 
No  fports  but  what  belong  to  war  they  know,        82^ 
To  break  the  ftubborn  colt,  to  bend  the  bow. 
Our  youth,  of  labour  patient,  earn  their  breads 
Hardly  they  work,  with  frugal  diet  fed. 
From  ploughs  and  harrows  fent  to  feek  renown. 
They  fight  in  fields,  and  ftorm  the  Ihaken  town,     S^o 
No  part  of  life  from  toils  of  war  is  free; 
No  change  in  age,  or  difference  in  degree* 

Wc 


298  DR  YD  EN'S     VIRGIL. 

We  plough,  and  till  in  arms;  our  oxen  fed, 

Inflead  of  goads,  the  fpur,  and  pointed  fteel : 

Th'  inverted  lance  makes  furrows  in  the  plain;        835 

Ev"n  time,  that  changes  all,  yet  changes  us  in  vain: 

The  body,  not  the  mind :  nor  can  control 

Th'  immortal  vigour,  or  abate  the  foul. 

Our  helms  defend  the  young,  difguife  the  grey : 

We  live  by  plunder,  and  delight  in  prey.  84.0 

Your  vefts  embroider 'd  with  rich  purple  Ihinc; 

In  iloth  you  glory,  and  in  dances  join. 

Your  veils  have  fweeping  fieeves :  with  female  pride 

Your  turbans  underneath  your  chins  are  ty'd. 

Go  Phrygians,  to  your  Dindymus  agen;  845 

Go,  lefs  than  women,  in  the  fhapes  of  men; 

Go,  mix'd  with  eunuchs,  in  the  mother's  rites. 

Where  with  unequal  found  the  flute  invites. 

Sing,  dance,  and  howl,  by  turns,  in  Ida's  iliade; 

Reiign  the  war  to  men,  who  know  the  martial  trade. 

This  foul  reproach  Afcanius  could  not  hear        851 

With  patience,  or  a  vow'd  revenge  forbear. 

At  the  full  ftretch  of  both  his  hands,  he  drew. 

And  almoft  join'd  the  horns  of  the  tough  eugh. 

Bat  firft,  before  the  throne  of  Jove  he  ftood :  855 

And  thus  with  lifted  hands  invoked  the  god : 

My  firft  attempt,  great  Jupiter,  fucceed; 

An  annual  offering  in  thy  grove  fhall  bleed : 

A  fnow- white  fleer  before  thy  altar  led. 

Who  like  his  mother  bears  aloft  his  head,  860 

But  with  his  threatening  brows,  and  bellowing  (lands. 

And  dares  the  fight,  and  fpurns  the  yellow  fands. 

Jove 


^  N  E  I  S.      BOOK    IX.  29J 

Jove  bow'd  the  heavens,  and  lent  a  gracious  ear. 
And  thunder'd  on  the  left,  amidft  the  clear. 
vSounded  at  once  the  bow;  and  fvviftly  flies  865" 

The  feather'd  death,  and  hiffes  through  the  {kies. 
The  fteel  through  both  his  temples  forc'd  the  way: 
Extended  on  the  ground  Numanus  lay. 
Go  now,  vain  boafter,  and  true  valour  fcorn ; 
The  Phrygians,  twice  fubdued,  yet  make  this  third 
return.    -  870 

Afcanius  faid  no  more:  the  Trojans  (hake 
The  heavens  with  fnouting,  and  new  vigour  take. 

Apollo  then  beftrode  a  golden  cloud,  1 

To  view  the  feats  of  arms»  and  fighting  crowd;  > 

And  thus  the  beardlefs  victor,  he  befpoke  aloud:  875  J 
Advance,  illuftrious  youth;  increafe  in  fame. 
And  wide  from  eaft  to  weft  extend  thy  name. 
Offspring  of  gods  thyfelf;  and  Rome  fhall  owe 
To  thee,  a  race  of  demigods  below. 
This  is  the  way  to  heaven :  the  powers  divine,  880 

From  this  beginning  date  the  Julian  line. 
To  thee,  to  them,  and  their  viftorious  heirs. 
The  conquer'd  war  is  due:  and  thevaft  world  is  theirs, 
Troy  is  too  narrow  for  thy  name.     He  faid. 
And,  plunging  downward,  Ihot  his  radiant  head;   88^ 
Difpeird  the  breathing  air  that  broke  his  flight. 
Shorn  of  his  beams,  a  man  to  mortal  fight. 
Old  Butes'  form  he  took,  Anchifes'  fquire. 
Now  left  to  rule  Afcanius,  by  his  fire; 
His  wrinkled  vifage,  and  his  hoary  hairs,  890 

His  mien,  his  habit,  and  his  arms  he  wears; 
And  thus  falutes  the  boy,  too  forward  for  his  years 

Suffice 


] 


300  DRY  DEN'S     VIRGIL. 

Suffice  it  thee,  thy  father's  worthy  foil. 
The  warlike  prize  thou  haft  already  won : 
The  god  of  archers  gives  thy  youth  a  part  2g^ 

Of  his  own  praife ;  nor  envies  equal  art. 
Now  tempt  the  war  no  more.     He  faid,  and  flew 
Obfcure  in  air,  and  vaniih'd  from  their  view. 
The  Trojans,  by  his  arms,  their  patron  know; 
And  hear  the  twanging  of  his  heavenly  bow.  900 

Then  duteous  force  they  ufe,  and  Phoebus'  nam.6. 
To  keep  from  fight  the  youth  too  fond  of  fame. 
Undaunted  they  themfelves  no  danger  fhun ; 
From  wall  to  wall  the  fhouts  and  clamours  run  : 
They  bend  their  bows;  they  whirl  their  flings  around;  1 
Heaps  of  fpent  arrows  fall,  and  ftrew  the  ground;       > 
And  helms,  and  fhields,  and  rattling  arms  refound,    J 
The  combat  thickens  like  the  ftorm  that  flies 
From  weftward,  when  the  fhowery  kids  arife: 
Or  pattering  hail  comes  pouring  on  the  main,  910 

When  Jupiter  defcends  in  hardened  rain: 
Or  bellowing  clouds  burft  with  a  ftormy  found. 
And  with  an  armed  winter  ftrew  the  ground. 
Pand'rus  and  Bitias,  thunder-bolts  of  war. 
Whom  Hiera  to  bold  Alcanor  bare  91  j; 

On  Ida's  top,  two  youths  of  height  and  fize. 
Like  firs  that  on  their  mother-mountain  rife; 
Prefuming  on  their  force,  the  gates  unbar. 
And  of  their  own  accord  invite  the  war. 
With  fates  averfe,  againft  their  king's  command,    920 
Arm'd  on  the  right  and  on  the  left  they  ftand. 

And 


JENEIS.      BOOK    IX.  301 

And  fiank  the  paffage :  (hining  fteel  they  wear. 

And  waving  crefls  above  their  heads  appear. 

Thus  two  tall  oaks,  that  Padus'  banks  adorn. 

Lift  up  to  heaven  their  leafy  heads  unfhorn;  92^ 

And  overprefs'd  with  nature's  heavy  load. 

Dance  to  the  whirling  winds,  and  at  each  other  nod. 

In  flows  a  tide  of  Latians,  when  they  fee 

The  gate  fet  open,  and  the  paffage  free. 

Bold  Quercen?,  Avith  rafh  Tmarus  rufhing  on,         930 

Equicolas,  who  in  bright  armour  fhone. 

And  Hcemon  firft,  but  foon  repuls'd  they  fly. 

Or  in  the  well-defended  pafs  they  die. 

Thefe  with  fuccefs  are  fir'd,  and  thofe  with  rage; 

And  each,  on  equal  terms  at  length,  engage.  95^ 

Drawn  from  their  lines,  and  iffuing  on  the  plain. 

The  Trojans  hand  to  hand  the  light  maintain. 

Fierce  Turnus  in  another  quarter  fought. 
When  fuddenly  th'  unhop'd-for  news  was  brought; 
The  foes  had  left  the  failnefs  of  their  place,  94.0 

Prevail'd  in  fight,  and  had  his  men  in  chace. 
He  quits  th'  attack,  and,    to  prevent  their  fate. 
Runs,  where  the  giant  brothers  guard  the  gate. 
The  firft  he  met,  Antiphates  the  brave. 
But  bafe-begotten  on  a  Theban  flave;  94. j; 

Sarpedon's  fon  he  flew :  the  deadly  dart 
Found   paffage    through    his  bread,    and    pierc'd  his 

heart. 
Fix'd  in  the  wound  th'  Italian  cornel  flood ; 
Warm'd  in  his  lungs,  and  in  his  vital  blood, 

Aphidnus 


} 


30»  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

Aphidnus  next,  and  Erymanthus  dies,  950 ' 

And  Meropes,  and  the  gigantic  lize 

Of  Bitias,  threatening  with  his  ardent  eyes. 

Not  by  the  feeble  dart  he  fell  opprefs'd, 

A  dart  were  loft  within  that  roomy  breaft. 

But  from  a  knotted  lance,  large,  heavy,  ftrong;       g^^ 

Which  roar'd  like  thunder  as  it  whirl'd  along;: 

Not  two  bull-hides  th'  impetuous  force  withhold; 

Nor  coat  of  double  mail,  with  fcales  of  gold. 

Down  funk  the  monfter-bulk,  and  prefsd  the  ground: 

His  arms  and  clattering  Ihield  on  the  vaft  body  found. 

Not  with  lefs  ruin,  than  the  Bajan  mole 

(Rais'd  on  the  feas  the  furges  to  control). 

At  once  comes  tumbling  down  the  rocky  wall. 

Prone  to  the  deep  the  ftones  disjointed  fall 

Off  the  vaft  pile;  the  fcatter'd  ocean  flies ;  96^ 

Black  fands,  difcolour'd  froth,  and  mingled  mud  arife. 

The  frighted  billows  roll,  and  feek  the  Ihores : 

Then  trembles  Prochyta,  then  Ifchia  roars : 

Typhceus  thrown  beneath,  by  Jove's  command^ 

Aftoni{h*d  at  the  flaw  that  fliakes  the  land,  970 

Soon  fliifts  his  weary  fide,  and,  fcarce  awake. 

With  wonder  feels  the  weight  prefs  lighter  on  his  back. 

The  warrior-god  the  Latian  troops  infplr'd ; 
New  ftrung  their  finews,  and  their  courage  fir'd. 
But  chills  the  Trojan  hearts  with  cold  affright:       97^ 
Then  black  defpair  precipitates  their  flight. 

When  Pandarus  beheld  his  brother  kill'd. 
The  town  with  fear,  and  wild  confufion  fill'd. 

He 


-ffiNEIS.     BOOK    IX.  -J03 

He  turns  the  hinges  of  the  heavy  gate 
With  both  his  hands ;  and  adds  his  fhoulders  to  the 
weight.  •  98Q 

Some  happier  friends  within  the  walls  inclos'd; 
The  reft  fhut  out,  to  certain  death  expos 'd. 
Fool  as  he  was,  and  frantic  in  his  care, 
T'  admit  young  Turnus,  and  include  the  war. 
He  thruft  amid  the  crowd,  fecurely  bold;  gSy 

Like  a  fierce  tiger  pent  amid  the  fold. 
Too  late  his  blazing  buckler  they  defcry; 
And  fparkling  fires  that  fhot  from  either  eye : 
His  mighty  members,  and  his  ample  breaft. 
His  rattling  armour,  and  his  crimfon  creft.  990 

Far  from  that  hated  face  the  Trojans  fly ; 
All  but  the  fool  who  fought  his  deftiny. 
Mad  Pandarus  fteps  forth,  with  vengeance  vow'd 
For  Bitias'  death,  and  threatens  thus  aloud : 
Thefe  are  not  Ardea's  walls,  nor  this  the  town       995* 
Amata  proffers  with  Lavinia's  crown : 
'Tis  hoftile  earth  you  tread ;  of  hope  bereft. 
No  means  of  fafe  return  by  flight  are  left. 
To  whom,  with  countenance  calm,  and  foul  fedate. 
Thus  Turnus;  Then  begin;  and  try  thy  fate:       1000 
My  meffage  to  the  ghoft  of  Priam  bear. 
Tell  him  a  new  Achilles  fent  thee  there. 

A  lance  of  tough  ground-alb  the  Trojan  threw, 
Kough  in  the  rind,  and  knotted  as  it  grew; 
Vv'ith  his  full  force  he  whirl'd  it  firft  around;         IC05 
But  the  foft  yielding  air  receiv'd  the  wound  : 

Imperial 


304  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Imperial  Juno  turn'd  the  courfe  before. 
And  fix'd  the  wandering  weapon  in  the  door. 

But  hope  not  thou,  faid  Turnus,  when  I  ftrike. 
To  fhun  thy  fate;  our  force  is  not  alike:  loio 

Nor  thy  fteel  tempered  by  the  Lemnian  god : 
Then,  rifing,  on  his  utmoft  ftretch  he  flood; 
And  aim'd  from  high :  the  full  defcending  blow 
Cleaves  the  broad  front,  and  beardlefs  cheeks  in  two ; 
Down  fmks  the  giant,  with  a  thundering  found. 
His  ponderous  limbs  opprefs  the  trembling  ground  ; 
Blood,   brainc,    and  foam,   guih  from  the  gaping 

wound. 

Scalp,  face,  and  fhoulders,  the  keen  fleel  divides; 
And  the  fhar'd  vifage  hangs  on  equal  fides. 
The  Trojans  fly  from  their  approaching  fate:        1020 
And  had  the  viftor  then  fecur'd  the  gate. 
And  to  his  troops  without  unclos'd  the  bars. 
One  lucky  day  had  ended  all  his  wars. 
But  boiling  youth,  and  blind  defire  of  blood, 
Puih  on  his  fury  to  purfue  the  crowd;  IG25 

Hamftring'd  behind,  unhappy  Gyges  dy'd; 
Then  Phalaris  is  added  to  his  fide : 
The  pointed  javelins  from  the  dead  he  drew. 
And  their  friends  arms  againft  their  fellows  threw. 
Strong  Halys  ftands  in  vain;  weak  Phlegys  flies; 
Saturnia,  ftill  at  hand,  new  force  and  fire  fupplies. 
Then  Halius,  Prytanis,  Alcander  fall 
(Engag'd  againfl  the  foes,  who  fcal'd  the  wall) : 
But  whom  they  fear'd  without,  they  found  within : 
At  lafl,  though  late,  by  Linceus  he  was  feen:      103^ 

He 


^  N  E  I  S.      B  O  O  K    X.  305 

He  calls  new  fuccours,  and  aflaults  the  prince; 

But  weak  his  force,  and  vain  is  their  defence. 

Turn'd  to  the  right,  his  fword  the  hero  drew. 

And  at  one  blow  the  bold  aggreflbr  flew. 

He  joints  the  neck;  and  with  a  ftroke  fo  ftrong,  1040 

The  helm  flies  oifF;  and  bears  the  head  along. 

Next  him,  the  huntfman  Amycus  he  kill'd. 

In  darts  envenom'd,  and  in  poifon  Ikill'd. 

Then  Clytius  fell  beneath  his  fatal  fpear. 

And  Cretus,  whom  the  Mufes  held  ib  dear:  1045 

He  fouo^ht  with  cooracre,  and  he  fune  the  fitrht: 

Arms  were  his  bunnefs,  \  erfes  his  delight. 

The  Trojan  chiefs  behold,  with  rage  and  grief. 
Their  flaughter'd  friends,  and  haflen  their  relief. 
Bold  Mneitheus  rallies  firft  the  broken  train,  1050 

Whom  brave  Serellhus  and  his  troop  fuftain. 
To  fave  the  living,  and  re\enge  the  dead, 
Againft  one  warrior*s"arm  all  Troy  they  led, 
O,  void  of  fenfe  and  courage,  Mnellheus  cry'd. 
Where  can  you  hope  your  coward  heads  to  hide?  1055 
Ah,  where  beyond  thefe  rampires  can  you  runf 
One  man,  and  in  your  camp  inclos'd,  you  fliunf 
Shall  then  a  fmgle  fword  fuch  /laughter  boaft. 
And  pafs  unpuniih'd  from  a  numerous  hoft? 
Forfaking  honour,  and  renouncing  fame,  1060 

Your  gods,  your  country,  and  your  king,  you  fhame. 

This  juft  reproach  their  virtue  does  excite. 
They  ftand,  they  join,  they  thicken  to  the  fight. 

Now  Turnus  doubts,  and  yet  difdains  to  yield  ; 
But  with  flow  paces  meafures  back  the  field;         106^ 
Vol.  XXIII.  X  And 


3p6  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

And  inches  to  the  walls,  where  Tiber's  tide,. 

Walhing  the  camp,  defends  the  weaker  fide. 

The  more  he  lofes,  they  advance  the  more ; 

And  tread  in  every  ftep  he  trod  before : 

They  fhout,  they  bear  him  back,  and  whom  by  might 

They  cannot  conquer,  they  opprefs  with  weight. 

As,  compafsM  with  a  wood  of  fpears  around. 
The  lordly  lion  ilill  maintains  his  ground; 
Grins  horrible,  retires,  and  turns  again; 
Threats  his  diftended  paws,  and  fliakes  his  mane: 
He  lofes  while  in  vain  he  prefTcs  on, 
Kor  will  his  courage  let  him  dare  to  run; 
So  Turnus  fares,  and,  unrefolv'd  of  flight. 
Moves  tardy  back,  and  juft  recedes  from  fight. 
Yet  tvvice,  enrag'd,  the  combat  he  renews,  1080 

Twice  breaks,  and  twice  his  broken  foes  purfues  : 
But  now  they  fwarm;  and,  with  frefli  troops  fupply*d. 
Come  rolling  on,  and  rufh  from  every  lide, 
Nor  Juno,  who  fuftain'd  his  arms  before. 
Dares  with  new  ftren^th  fuffice  th'  exhaufted  ftore. 
For  Jove,  with  four  commands,  fent  Iris  dov.n. 
To  force  th'  invader  from  th'  affrighted  town. 

With  labour  fpent,  no  longer  can  he  wield 
The  heavy  faulchion,  or  fuftain  the  fhield  : 
O'erwhelm'd  with  darts,  which  from  afar  they  fling. 
The  weapons  round  his  hollow  temples  ring: 
His  golden  helm  gives  way :  with  ftony  blows 
Batter'd,  and  flat,  and  beaten  to  his  brows. 
His  creft  is  rafh'd  away;  his  ample  fliield 
Is  falfify'd,  and  rcuM  with  javelins  hll'd^  109^ 

The 


^  N  E  I  S.      B  O  O  K    IX.  307 

The  foe  now  faint;  the  Trojans  overwhelm: 
And  Mneftheus  lays  hard  load  upon  his  hehn. 
Sick  fweat  fucceeds,  he  drops  at  every  pore. 
With  driving  duft  his  cheeks  are  paired  o'er. 
Shorter  and  fhorter  every  gafp  he  takes,  1 1 00 

And  vain  efforts  and  hurtlefs  blows  he  makes. 
Arm'd  as  he  was,  at  length,  he  leap'd  from  high; 
Plung'd  in  the  flood,  and  made  the  waters  fly. 
The  yellow  god  the  welcome  burden  bore. 
And  wip'd  the  fweat,  and  wafhd  away  the  gore:  liOj; 
Then  gently  wafts  him  to  the  farther  coaft; 
And  fends  him  hie  to  chear  his  anxious  hoii. 


X  a  THE 


3oS  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

THE 
TENTH      BOOK 

OF       THE 

^        N         E        r 


THE    ARGUMENT. 

Jupiter,  calling  a  council  of  the  gods,  forbids  them  to 
engage  in  either  pany.  At  yEneas's  return,  there- 
is  a  bloody  battle :  Turnus  killing  Pallas ;  iEneas, 
Laufus,  and  Mezentius.  Mezentius  is  defcribed  as 
anatheift;  Laufus  as  a  pious  and  virtuous  youth: 
the  different  a^Hons  and  death  of  thefe  two  are  the 
fubjedt  of  a  noble  epifode. 

THE  gates  of  heaven  unfold ;  Jove  fummons  all 
The  gods  to  council  in  the  common  hall. 
Sublimely  feated,  he  furveys  from  far 
The  fields,  the  camp,  the  fortune  of  the  war; 
And  all  th'  inferior  world  :  from  firft  to  lall  5 

The  fovereign  fenate  in  degrees  are  plac'd. 

Then  thus  th'  almighty  fire  began :  Ye  gods. 
Natives,  or  denizens,  of  bled  abodes  5 

From 


^NEIS.      BOOK    3C-  3*9 

From  whence  thefe  murmurs,  and  this  change  of  mind. 
This  backv/ard  fate  from  what  was  firfl:  defign'd  ?      i  o 
Why  this  protraded  war  ?   When  my  commands 
Pronounc'd  a  peace,  and  gave  the  Latian  lands. 
What  fear  or  hopes  on  either  part  divides 
Our  heavens,  and  arms  our  powers  on  different  fides? 
A  lawful  time  of  war  at  length  will  come 


::} 


(Nor  need  your  hafte  anticipate  the  doom) 
When  Carthao^e  Ihall  contend  the  world  with  Rome ; 
Shall  force  the  rigid  rocks,  and  Alpine  chains; 
And  like  a  flood  come  pouring  on  the  plains: 
Then  is  your  time  for  fadion  and  debate,  20 

For  partial  favour,  and  permitted  hate. 
Let  now  your  immature  diifeniion  ceafe : 
Sit  quiet,  and  compofe  your  fouls  to  peace. 
Thus  Jupiter  in  few  unfolds  the  charges 
But  lovely  Venus  thus  replies  at  large:  25 

O  power  immenfe,  eternal  energy! 
(For  to  what  elfe  proteftion  can  we  fly?) 
Seeft  thou  the  proud  Rutulians,  how  they  dare 
In  fields,  unpunifh'd,  and  infult  my  care  ? 
How  lofty  Turnus  vaunts  amidft  his  train,  30  ■ 

In  Ihining  arms  triumphant  on  the  plain  ? 
Ev'n  in  their  lines  and  trenches  they  contend; 
And  fcarce  their  walls  the  Trojan  troops  defend : 
The  town  is  fill'd  with  flaughter,  and  o'erfloats. 
With  a  red  deluge,  their  increafmg  moats.  35 

-^neas,  ignorant,  and  far  from  thence, 
Has  left  a  camp  expos'd,  without  defence, 

X  ^  Thif 


3T0  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

This  endlefs  outrage  fnall  they  ftill  fuftain? 

Shall  Troy  renew 'd  be  forc'd,  and  fired  again? 

A  fecond  fiege  my  banifh'd  iflue  fears,  49 

And  a  new  Diomede  in  arms  appears. 

One  more  audacious  mortal  will  be  founds 

And  I  thy  daughter  wait  another  wound. 

Yet  if,  with  fates  averfe,  without  thy  leave. 

The  Latian  lands  my  progeny  receive,  4 J 

Bear  they  the  pains  of  violated  law. 

And  thy  protedion  from  their  aid  withdraw. 

But  if  the  gods  their  fure  fuccefs  foretel. 

If  thofe  of  heaven  confent  with  thofe  of  hell. 

To  promife  Italy.;  who  dare  debate  ^9 

The  power  of  Jove^  or  fix  another  fate  ? 

What  fhould  I  tell  of  tempefts  oir  the  main. 

Of  iEolus  ufurping  Neptune's  reign? 

Of  Iris  fent,  with  Bacchanalian  heat, 

T'  infpire  the  matrons,  and  deftroy  the  fleet.  ^^ 

Now  Juno  to  the  Stygian  Iky  defcenda. 

Solicits  hell  for  aid,  and  arms  the  fiends. 

That  new  example  wanted  yet  above : 

An  aft  that  well  became  the  wife  of  Jove. 

Ale6lo,  rais'd  by  her,  with  rage  inflames  ift 

The  peaceful  bofoms  of  the  Latian  dames. 

Imperial  fway  no  more  exalts  my  mind 

(Such  hopes  I  had  indeed,  while  heaven  was  kind"}; 

Now  let  my  happier  foes  poflefs  my  place. 

Whom  Jove  prefers  before  the  Trojan  race;  6^ 

And  conquer  they,  whom  you  with  conqueft  grace. 

Since 


i\ 


} 


-ffiNEIS.     BOOK    X.  311 

Since  you  can  fpare,  from  all  your  wide  command. 

No  fpot  of  earth,  no  hofpitable  land. 

Which  may  my  wandering  fugitives  receive 

(Since  haughty  Juno  v/ill  not  give  you  leave);  70 

Then,  father  (if  I  flill  may  ufe  that  name) 

By  ruin'd  Troy,  yet  fmoking  from  the  iiame, 

I  beg  you,  let  Afcanius  by  my  care. 

Be  freed  from  danger,  and  difmifsM  the  war : 

Inglorious  let  him  live,  without  a  crown ;  7^ 

The  father  may  be  call  on  coafts  unknown. 

Struggling  with  fate;  but  let  me  fave  the  fon. 

Mine  is  Cythera,   mine  the  Cyprian  towers ; 

In  thofe  receffes,  and  thofe  facred  bowers, 

Obfcurely  let  him  reft;  his  right  refign  2o 

To  promis'd  empire,  and  his  Julian  line. 

Then  Carthage  may  th'  Aufonian  towns  deflroy. 

Nor  fear  the  race  of  a  rejefted  boy. 

What  profits  it  my  fon,  to  Tcape  the  fire, 

Arm'd  w'ith  his  gods,  and  loaded  with  his  fire  ;       85" 

To  pafs  the  perils  of  the  fe  s  and  wind ; 

Evade  the  Greeks,  and  leave  the  war  behind; 

To  reach  th*  Italian  fhores :  if,  after  all, 

Onr  fecond  Pergamus  is  doom'd  to  fall  ? 

Much  better  had  he  curb'd  his  high  defires,  90 

And  hover'd  o"er  his  ill-extinguifh'd  fires. 

To  Simois'  banks  the  fugitives  refl:ore. 

And  give  them  back  to  war,  and  all  the  woes  before. 

Deep  indignation  fwell'd  Saturnia's  heart : 
And  muil  I  own,  Ihe  faid,  my  fecret  fmart?  95 

X  4  What 


11%  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

What  with  more  decence  were  in  filence  kept. 

And  but  for  this  unjuft  reproach  had  flept. 

Did  god,  or  man,  your  favourite  fon  advife. 

With  war  unhop'd  the  Latians  to  furprize? 

By  fate  you  boafl,  and  by  the  gods  decree,  JOS 

He  left  his  native  land  for  Italy : 

Confefs  the  truth;  by  mad  CaiTandra,  more 

Than  Heaven,  infpir'd,  he  fought  a  foreign  fhore! 

Did  I  perfuade  to  truft  his  fecond  Troy 

To  the  raw  conduft  of  a  beardlefs  boy?  105 

With  walls  unfinifh'd,  which  himfelf  forfakes, 

And  through  the  waves  a  wandering  voyage  takes? 

When  have  I  urg'd  him  meanly  to  demand 

The  Tufcan  aid,  and  arm  a  quiet  land  ? 

Did  I  or  Iris  give  this  mad  advice?  I  lO 

Or  made  the  fool  himfelf  the  fatal  choice? 

You  think  it  hard,  the  Latians  fhould  deliroy 

With  fwords  your  Trojans,  and  with  fires  your  Troy: 

Hard  and  unjuft  indeed,  for  men  to  draw 

Their  native  air,  nor  take  a  foreign  law :  1 1^ 

That  Turnus  is  permitted  ftill  to  live. 

To  whom  his  birth  a  god  and  goddefs  give : 

But  yet  'tis  juft  and  lawful  for  your  line. 

To  drive  their  fields,  and  force  with  fraud  to  join. 

Bealms  not  your  own,  among  your  clans  divide,     120 

And  from  the  bridegroom  tear  the  promised  bride: 

Petition,  while  you  public  arms  prepare; 

Pretend  a  peace,  and  yet  provoke  a  war. 

*Twas  given  to  you,  your  darling  fon  to  Ihrowd, 

To  draw  the  daftard  from  the  fighting  crowd;    125 

And  for  a  man  obtend  an  empty  cloud. 

From 


} 


m^ElS.     B  O  OK    X.  3,5 

From  flaming  fleets  you  turn'd  the  fire  avvav. 

And  chang'd  the  fhips  to  daughters  of  the  fea. 

But  "tis  my  crime,  the  Queen  of  Heaven  offends,  - 

If  (he  prefume  to  fave  her  fuffering  friends.  130 

Your  fon,  not  knowing  what  his  foes  decree. 

You  fay  is  abfent :  abfent  let  him  be. 

Yours  is  Cythera,  yours  the  Cyprian  towers. 

The  foft  receffes,  and  the  facred  bowers. 

Why  do  you  then  thefe  needlefs  arms  prepare,         135 

And  thus  provoke  a  people  prone  to  war? 

Did  I  with  fire  the  Trojan  town  deface. 

Or  hinder  from  return  your  exil'd  race? 

Was  I  the  caufe  of  mifchief,  or  the  man, 

Whofe  lawlefs  lull  the  fatal  war  began  ?  140 

Think  on  whofe  faith  th'  adulterous  youth  rely'd; 

Who  promised,  who  procur'd,  the  Spartan  bride? 

When  all  th'  united  ftates  of  Greece  combin'd. 

To  purge  the  world  cif  the  perfidious  kind ; 

Then  was  your  time  to  fear  the  Trojan  fate:  14^ 

Your  quarrels  and  complaints  are  now  too  late. 

Thus  Juno,     Murmurs  rife,  with  mix'd  applaufe; 
Juft  as  they  favour,  or  diflike,  the  caufe ; 
So  winds,  when  yet  unfledg'd  in  woods  they  lie. 
In  whifpers  firft  their  tender  voices  try  :  i^O 

Then  iflue  on  the  main  with  bellowing  rage. 
And  florms  to  trembling  mariners  prefage. 

Then  thus  to  both  reply'd  th'  imperial  god. 
Who  fhakes  Heaven's  axles  with  his  awful  nod, 
(When  he  begins,  the  filent  fenate  ftand  155 

With  reverence,  liflening  to  the  dread  command  : 

The 


314.  DR  YD  EN'S    V  I  R  G  IT,. 

The  clouds  difpel;  the  winds  their  breath  reftrainj 
And  the  hufh'd  waves  lie  flatted  on  the  main). 

Coeleftialsf  your  attentive  ears  incline;  1 

Since,  faid  the  god,  the  Trojans  muft  not  join   160  > 
In  wifli'd  alliance  with  the  Latian  line;  J 

Since  endlefs  jarrings,  and  immortal  hate,  T 

Tend  but  to  difcompofe  our  happy  ftate;  > 

■^he  war  henceforward  be  refign'd  to  Fate,  J 

Each  to  his  proper  fortune  ftand  or  fall,  16^ 

Equal  and  unconcern'd  I  look  on  all. 
Rutulians,  Trojans,  are  the  fame  to  me; 
And  both  fhall  draw  the  lots  their  fates  decree. 
Let  thefe  aflault,  if  Fortune  be  their  friend; 
And  if  fhe  favours  thofe,  let  thofe  defend :  1 70 

'The  Fates  will  find  their  way.     The  Thunderer  faid; 
And  {hook  the  facred  honours  of  his  head; 
Attefting  Styx,  th'  inviolable  flood,  ^ 

And  the  black  regions  of  his  brother  god :  ] 

Trembled  the  poles  of  Heav'n;  and  earth  confefs'd  j* 
the  nod:  I'i^ 

This  end  the  felTions  had  :  the  fenate  rife. 
And  to  his  palace  wait  their  fovereign  through  the  fkieso 

Mean  time,  intent  upon  their  fiege,  the  foes 
Within  their  walls  the  Trojan  hoft  inclofe : 
They  wound,  they  kill,  they  watch  at  every  gate:  180 
Renew  the  fires,  and  urge  their  happy  fate. 

Th'  ^neans  wifh  in  ^'ain  their  wonted  chief, 
Hopelefs  of  flight,  more  hopelefs  of  relief; 
Thin  on  the  towers  they  ftand;  and  ev'n  thofe  {cw^ 
Ji  feeble,  fainting,  and  dejeded  crew4  18^ 

I  '  Yet 

/ 


■■} 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K     X.  3«^ 

Yet  in  tTie  face  of  danger  fome  there  flood : 

The  two  bold  brothers  of  Sarpedon's  blood, 

Afius  and  Acmon:  both  th'  Aflaraci; 

Young  Hasmon,  and,  though  young,  refolv'd  to  die. 

With  thefe  were  Clarus  and  Thymetes  join'd;         15® 

Tibris  and  Caftor,  both  of  Lycian  kind. 

From  Acmon's  hands  a  rolling  Hone  there  came. 

So  large,  it  half  deferv'd  a  mountain's  name! 

Strong-finewM  was  the  youth,  and  big  of  bone. 

His  brother  Mneftheus  could  not  more  have  done: 

Or  the  great  father  of  th'  intrepid  fon. 

Some  firebrands  throw,  fome  flights  of  arrows  fend; 

And  fome  with  darts.,  and  fome  with  ftones  defend. 

Amid  the  prefs  appears  the  beauteous  boy. 

The  care  of  Venus,  and  the  hope  of  Troy.  20G 

His  lovely  face  imarm'd,  his  head  was  bare. 

In  ringlets  o'er  his  flioulders  hung  his  hair  j 

His  forehead  circled  with  a  diadem; 

Diftinguifli'd  from  the  crowd  he  fliines  a  gem, 

Enchas'd  in  gold,  or  polifli'd  ivory  Cct^  20^ 

Amidft  the  meaner  foil  of  fable  jet. 

Nor  Ifmarus  was  wanting  to  the  war, 
Direfting  pointed  arrows  from  afar. 
And  death  with  poifon  arm'd :  in  Lydia  born 
Where  plenteous  harvefls  the  fat  fields  adorn :  210 

Where  proud  Padolus  floats  the  fruitful  lands. 
And  leaves  a  rich  manure  of  golden  fands. 
There  Capys,  author  of  the  Capuan  name: 
And  there  was  Mneftheus  too  increas'd  in  fame. 
Since  Tumus  from  the  camp  he  call  with  fliame,  2 1 

Thus 


J 


-■fi6  DjlYDEN^S    VIRGiI^ 

Thus  mortal  war  vvas*wag'd  on  either  fide. 
Mean  time  the  hero  cuts  the  nightly  tide : 
I^or,  anxious,  from  Evander  when  he  went. 
He  "fought  the  Tyrrhene  camp,  arid  Tarchon's  tent ; 
Exposed  the  caufe  of  coming  to  the  chief ;  220 

His  name  and  country  told,  and  aflc'd  relief: 
Propos'd  the  terms;  his  own  fmall  ftrength  declar'd. 
What  vengeance  proud  Mezentius  had  prepar'd : 
What  Tumus,  bold  and  violent,  delign'd ; 
Then  fhew'd  the  fiippery  ftate  of  human  kind,         225 
And  fickle  Fortune;  warn'd  him  to  beware: 
And  to  his  wholefome  counfel  added  prayer. 
Tarchon,  without  delay,  the  treaty  figns : 
And  to  the  Trojan  troops  the  Tufcan  Joins. 

They  foon  fet  fail ;  nor  now  the  Fates  withftand ;  230 
Their  forces  trufted  with  a  foreign  hand, 
.^neas  leads;  upon  his  ftern  appear  1 

Two  lions  carv'd,  which  riling  Ida  bear;  J* 

Ida,  to  wandering  Trojans  ever  dear.  J 

Under  their  grateful  fhade  -^neas  fate,  23-5 

Revolving  war's  events,  and  various  fate. 
His  left  young  Pallas  kept,  fix'd  to  his  fide. 
And  oft'  of  winds  inquir'd,  and  of  the  tide: 
Oft'  of  the  liars,  and  of  their  watery  way; 
And  what  he  fufier'd  both  by  land  and  fea.  240 

Now,  facred  lifters,  open  all  your  fpring: 
The  Tufcan  leaders,  and  their  army  fmg ; 
Which  follow'd  great  ^neas  to  the  war: 
Their  arms,  their  numbers,  and  their  names,  declare. 

A  thou- 


^NEIS.     BOOK    X.  317 

A  thoufand  youths  brave  Maflicus  obe\',  245^ 

Bom  in  the  Tiger,  through  the  foaming  fea; 

From  Afium  brought,  and  Cofa,  by  his  care ; 

For  arms,  light  quivers,  bows  and  fhafts  they  bear. 

Fierce  Abas  next,  his  men  bright  armour  wore; 

His  fcern,  Apollo's  golden  ftatue  bore.  2.50 

Six  hundred  Populonea  fent  along. 

All  fkiird  in:  martial  exercife,  and  llrone. 

Three  hundred  more  for  battle  Ilva  joins. 

An  ille  renown'd  for  fteel,  and  unexhaulied  mixies, 

Afyias  on  his  prow  the  third  appears.  2  c^. 

Who  heaven  interprets,  and  the  wandering  ftars  i 

From  offer'd  entrails  prodigies  expounds. 

And  peals  of  thunder,  with  prefaging  founds. 

A  thoufand  fpea!:s  in  warlike  order  ftand. 

Sent  by  the  Pifans  under  his  command.  260 

Fair  Aftur  follows  in  the  watery  field. 
Proud  of  his  manag'd  horfe,  and  painted  fliield, 
Gravifca,  noifom  from  the  neighbouring  fen. 
And  his  own  Coere,  fent  three  hundred  men : 
"With  thofe  whioh  Minio's  fields,  and  Pyrgi  gave;  26^ 
All  bred  in  arms,  unanimous  and  brave. 

ThoU',  Mufe,  the  name  of  Cinyras  renew ; 
And  brave  Cupavo  foUow'd  but  by  fev,- : 
Whofe  helm  confefs'd  the  lineage  of  the  man. 
And  bore,  with  wings  difplay'd,  a  filver  fwan.       270 
Love  was  the  fault  of  his  fam'd  ancefiry, 
Whofe  forms  and  fortunes  in  his  enfigns  fly. 
For  Cycnus  lov'd  unhappy  Phaeton, 
And  fung  his  lofs  in  poplar  groves  alone; 

Beneath 


3il  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Beneath  the  fifter  fhades  to  footh  his  grief:  27^ 

Heaven  heard  his  fong,  and  haften'd  his  relief  j 

And  chang'd  to  fnowy  plumes  his  hoary  hair. 

And  wing'd  his  flight,  to  chant  aloft  in  air. 

His  fon  Cupavo  brufh'd  the  briny  flood; 

Upon  his  flern  a  brawny  Centaur  flood,  280 

"Who  heav'd  a  rock,  and  threatening  ftill  to  throw, 

"With  lifted  hands,  alarm 'd  the  feas  below : 

They  feem  to  fear  the  formidable  fight. 

And  roll'd  their  billows  on,  to  fpeed  his  flight. 

Ocnus  was  next,  who  led  his  native  train  285 

Of  hardy  warriors  through  the  watery  plain^ 
The  fon  of  Manto,  by  the  Tufcan  flream. 
From  whence  the  Mantuan  town  derives  the  name. 
An  ancient  city,  but  of  mix'd  defcent. 
Three  feveral  tribes  compofe  the  government:         290 
Four  towns  are  under  each ;  but  all  obey 
The  Mantuan  laws,  and  own  the  Tufcan  fway. 

Hate  to  Mezentius  arm'd  five  hundred  more, 
"Whom  Mincius  from  his  fire  Benacus  bore; 
{Mincius  with  wreaths  of  reeds  his  forehead  cover'd 

o'er.  295 

Thefe  grave  Auletes  leads.     A  hundred  fweep. 
With  ftretching  oars,  at  once  the  glafly  deep: 
Him,  and  his  martial  train,  the  Triton  bears. 
High  on  his  poop  the  fea-green  god  appears : 
Frowning  he  feems  his  crooked  fliell  to  found,         50O 
And  at  the  blafl:  the  billows  dance  around. 
A  hair}^  man  above  the  wafl:e  he  ihows, 
A  porpoife  tail  beneath  his  belly  grows; 

And 


JENEIS.      B  O  OK    X.  319 

And  ends  a  fifh :  his  breaft  the  waves  divides. 

And  froth  and  fcam  augment  the  murmuring  tides.  305 

Full  thirty  fhips  tranfport  the  chofen  train. 
For  Troy's  relief^  and  fcour  the  briny  main. 

Now  was  the  world  forfaken  by  the  fun. 
And  Phoebe  half  her  nightly  race  had  run. 
The  careful  chief,  who  never  clos'd  his  eyes,  31© 

Himfelf  the  rudder  holds,  the  fails  fupplies. 
A  choir  of  Nereids  meet  him  on  the  fiood. 
Once  his  own  gallies,  hev/n  from  Ida's  wood: 
But  now  as  many  nymphs  the  fea  they  fweep. 
As  rode  before  tall  veffels  on  the  deep.  3 1  ^ 

They  know  him  from  afar;  and  in  a  ring 
Inclofe  the  fhip  that  bore  the  Trojan  king, 
Cymodoce,  whofe  voice  excelled  the  reft. 
Above  the  waves  ad  vane 'd  her  fnowy  breaft. 
Her  right  hand  flops  the  ftern,  her  left  divides        320 
The  curling  ocean,  and  correfts  the  tides; 
She  fpoke  for  all  the  choir;  and  thus  began 
With  pleafing  words  to  warn  th'  unknowing  man: 
Sleeps  our  lov'd  lord?  O  goddefs-born !  awake. 
Spread  every  fail,  purfue  your  watery  track;  32^ 

And  hade  your  courfe.     Your  navy  once  were  we. 
From  Ida's  height  defcending  to  the  fea : 
Till  Tumus,  as  at  anchor  fix'd  we  ftood, 
Prcfum'd  to  violate  our  holy  wood. 
Then  loos'd  from  fnore  we  fled  his  fires  profane  330"] 
(Unwillingly  we  broke  our  mafter's  chain);  > 

And  fmce  have  fought  you  through  the  Tufcan  main.  J 

The 


3*0  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

The  mighty  mother  chang'd  our  forms  to  thefe. 
And  gave  us  life  immortal  in  the  feas, 
But  young  Afcanius,  in  his  camp  diftrefs'd,  ^^^ 

By  your  infulting  foes  is  hardly  prefs'd ; 
Th'  Arcadian  horfemen,  and  Etrurian  hoft. 
Advance  in  order  on  the  Latian  coafl: : 
To  cut  their  way  the  Daunian  chief  dellgns. 
Before  their  troops  can  reach  the  Trojan  lines,        340 
Thou,  when  the  rofy  morn  reftores  the  light,. 
Firft  arm  thy  foldiers  for  th*  enfuing  fight; 
Thyfelf  the  fated  fword  of  Vulcan  wield. 
And  bear  aloft  th'  impenetrable  fhicld. 
To-morrow's  fun,  unlefs  my  fkill  be  vain,  3^^ 

Shall  fee  huge  heaps  of  foes  in  battle  flain. 
Parting,  {he  fpoke;  and,  with  immortal  force, 
Pufh'd  on  the  veffel  in  her  watery  courfe, 
(For  welt  Ihe  knew  the  way)  impelFd  behind. 
The  fhip  flew  forward,  and  outftript  the  wind,        ^^q 
The  reft  make  up :  unknowing  of  the  caufe. 
The  chief  admires   their  fpeed,    and  happy  omen* 
draws. 

Then  thus  he  pray'd,  and  fix'd  on  heaven  his  eyes ; 
Hear  thou,  great  mother  of  the  deities. 
With  turrets  crown'd,  (on  Ida's  holy  hilJ,  355; 

Fierce  tigers,  rein'd  and  curb'd,  obey  thy  will). 
Firm  thy  own  omens,  lead  us  on  to  fight. 
And  let  thy  Phr}''gians  conquer  in  thy  right. 

He  faid  no  more.     And  now  renewing  day 
Had  chac'd  the  fhadows  of  the  flight  away,  ^60 

He 


^NEIS.     BOOK    X.  3H 

He  charg'd  the  foldiers  with  preventing  care. 
Their  flags  to  follow,  and  their  arms  prepare ; 
Warn'd  of  th'  enfuing  fight,  and  bade  them  hope  the 
war. 

Now,  from  his  lofty  poop,  he  view'd  below. 
His  camp  encompafs'd,  and  th' inclofing  foe.         ^6^ 
His  blazing  ihield  embrac'd,  he  held  on  high; 
The  camp  receive  the  fign,  and  with  loud  (houts  reply. 
Hope  arms  their  courage :  from  their  towers  they  throw 
Their  darts  with  double  force,  and  drive  the  foe. 
Thus,  at  the  fignal  given,  the  cranes  arife  j-jo 

Before  the  ftormy  fouth,  and  blacken  all  the  Ikies. 

Xing  Tumus  wonder'd  at  the  fight  renew'd ; 
Till,  looking  back,  the  Trojan  fleet  he  view'd; 
The  feas  with  fwelling  canvafs  cover'd  o'er; 
And  the  fwift  Ihips  defcending  on  the  Ihore,  3^^; 

The  Latians  faw  from  far,  with  dazzled  eyes. 
The  radiant  creft  that  feem'd  in  flames  to  rife. 
And  dart  diffufive  fires  around  the  field; 
And  the  keen  glittering  of  the  golden  fhield. 
Thus  threatening  comets,  when  by  night  they  rife,  380 
Shoot  fanguine  ft  reams,  and  fadden  all  the  fkies : 
So  Sirius,  flafliing  forth  finifter  lights. 
Pale  human-kind   with  plagues   and  with  dry  famine 

frio-hts'. 
Yet  Turnus,  with  undaunted  mind,  is  bent 
To  man  the  fhores,  and  hinder  their  defcent:  385 

And  thus  awakes  the  courage  of  his  friends. 
What  you  fo  long  have  wifh'd,  kind  fortune  fends: 

Vol.  XXIII.  Y  In 


34»  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Ill  ardent  arms  to  meet  th'  invading  foe : 
You  find,  and  find  him  at  advantage  now. 
Yours  is  the  day,  you  need  but  only  dare;  350 

Your  fwords  will  make  you  mafters  of  the  war. 
Your  fires,  your  fons,  your  houfes,  and  your  lands. 
And  dearefl:  wives,  are  all  withiii  your  hands. 
Be  mindful  of  the  race  from  whence  you  came; 
And  emulate  in  arms  your  father's  fame.  39_j 

Kow  take  the  time,  while  ftaggering  yet  they  fland 
With  feet  unhrm  ;  and  prepoffefs  the  ftrand : 
Fortune  befriends  the  bold.     No  more  he  faid. 
But  balanc'd  whom  to  leave,  and  whom  to  lead  : 
Then  thefe  elects,  the  landing  to  prevent ;  400 

And  thofe  he  leaves,  to  keep  the  city  pent. 

Mean  time  the  Trojan  fends  his  troops  afhore : 
Some  are  by  boats  expos 'd,  by  bridges  more. 
With  labouring  oars  they  bear  along  the  flrand. 
Where  the  tide  languifhes,  and  leap  a-land.  405 

Tarchon  obferves  the  coaft  with  careful  eyes. 
And  where  no  ford  he  finds,  no  water  fries. 
Nor  billows  with  unequal  murmur  roar. 
But  fmoothly  flide  along,  and  fwell  the  Ihore : 
That  courfe  he  fleer'd,  and  thus  he  gave  command. 
Here  ply  your  oars,  and  at  all  hazard  land  : 
Force  on  the  veifel,  that  her  keel  may  wound 
This  hated  foil,  and  furrow  hoflile  ground. 
Let  me  fecurely  land,  I  afk  no  more. 
Then  fmk  my  Ihips,  or  fhatter  on  the  fhore.  415 

This  fiery  fpeech  inflames  his  fearful  friends. 
They  tug  at  every  oaij  aiid  every  flretcher  bends : 

5  They 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    X.  323 

They  run  their  fhips  aground,  the  veffels  knock, 

(Thus  forc'd  afhore)  and  tremble  with  the  Ihock. 

Tarchon's  alone  was  loft,  and  ftranded  flood,  420 

Stuck  on  a  bank,  and  beaten  by  the  flood. 

She  breaks  her  back,  the  loofen'd  fides  give  way. 

And  plunge  the  Tufcan  foldieis  in  the  fea. 

Their  broken  oars  and  floating  planks  withftand        t 

Their  paffage,  while  they  labour  to  the  land;     425  I 

And  ebbing  tide_s  bear  back  uponth'  uncertain  fand,  J 

Now  Turnus  leads  his  troops,  without  delay. 
Advancing  to  the  margin  of  the  fea. 
The  .trumpets  found:  ^neas  firfl  allail'd 
The  clowns  new-rais'd  and  raw;  and  foon  prevail'd,  430 
Great  Theron  fell,  an  omen  of  the  fight: 
Great  Theron  large  of  limbs,  of  giant  height. 
He  firfl:  in  open  fields  defy'd  the  prince. 
But  armour  fcal'd  with  gold  was  no  defence 
Againft  the  fated  fword,  which  open'd  wide  435; 

His  plated  fliield,  and  pierc'd  his  naked  fide. 

Next,  Lycas  fell;  who,  not  like  others  born. 
Was  from  his  wretched  mother  ripp'd  and  torn: 
Sacred,  O  Phoebus!  from  his  birth  to  thee. 
For  his  beginning  life  from  biting  fteel  was  free.    440 
Nor  far  from  him  was  Gyas  laid  along. 
Of  monftrous  bulk;  with  CifTeus  fierce  and  ftrong; 
Vain  bulk  and  ftrength ;  for  when  the  chief  aflail'd. 
Nor  valour,  nor  Herculean  arms,  avail'd; 
Nor  their  fam'd  father,  wont  in  wrt  to  go  44> 

With  great  Alcides,  while  he  toii'd  belo^v, 

\  S  The 


324.  DRY2)EN*S    VIRGIL. 

The  noify  Pharos  next  receiv'd  his  death, 

^neas  writh'd  his  dart,  and  ftopp'd  his  bawling  breath. 

Then  wretched  Cydon  had  receiv'd  his  doom. 

Who  courted  Clytius  in  his  beardlefs  bloom,  450 

And  fought  with  luft  obfcene  polluted  joys : 

The  Trojan  fword  had  cur"d  his  love  of  boys. 

Had  not  his  feven  bold  brethren  ftopp'd  the  courfe 

Of  the  fierce  champion,  with  united  force. 

Seven  darts  are  thrown  at  once,  and  fome  rebound  45 j; 

From  his  bright  fhield,  fome  on  his  helmet  found : 

The  reft  had  reach'd  him,  but  his  mother's  care 

Prevented  thofe,  and  turn'd  afide  in  air. 

The  prince  then  call"d  Achates,  to  fupply 
The  fpears  that  knew  the  way  to  vidtory.  460 

Thofe  fatal  weapons,  which,  inur'd  to  blood. 
In  Grecian  bodies  under  Ilium  ftood  : 
Not  one  of  thofe  my  hand  Ihall  tofs  in  vain 
Againft  our  foes.,  on  this  contended  plain. 
He  faid:  then  feiz'd  a  mighty  fpear,  and  threw;    46_j 
Which,  wing'd  w4th  fate,  through  Mason's  buckler  flew; 
Pierc'd  all  the  brazen  plates,  and  reach'd  his  heart: 
He  ftao-o-er'd  with  intolerable  fmart. 
Alcanor  faw ;  and  reach'd,  but  reach'd  in  vain^ 
His  helping  hand,  his  brother  to  fuftain.  4';o 

A  fecond  fpear,  which  kept  the  former  courfe. 
From  the  fame  hand,  and  fent  with  equal  force. 
His  right  arm  pierc'd,  and,  holding  on,  bereft 
His  ufe  of  both,  and  pinion'd  down  his  left. 
Then  Namitor,  from  his  dead  brother,  drew         47-5 
Th'  ill-omcn'd  fpear,  and  at  the  Trojan  threw: 

Preventing 


iENEIS.      B  O  0  K    X.  325 

Preventing  Fate  direfls  the  lance  awry. 
Which,  glancing,  only  mark'd  Achates'  thigh. 

In  pride  of  youth  the  Sabine  Claufus  came. 
And  from  afar  at  Dryops  took  his  aim.  480 

The  fpear  flew  hiffing  through  the  middle  fpace. 
And  pierc'd  his  throat,  direfted  at  his  face: 
It  ftopp"d  at  once  the  pafTage  of  his  wind. 
And  the  free  foul  to  flitting  air  refign'd ;   . 
His  forehead  was  the  firft  that  ftruck  the  ground ;  485 
Life-blood  and  life  rufh'd  mingled  through  the  wound. 
He  flew  three  brothers  of  the  Borean  race,  -i 

And  three,  whom  Ifmarus,  their  native  place,  I 

Had  fent  to  war,  but  all  the  fons  of  Thrace,  J 

Halefus  next,  the  bold  Aurunci  leads;  490 

The  fon  of  Neptune  to  his  aid  fucceeds, 
Confpicuous  on  his  horfe :  on  either  hand 
Thefe  fight  to  keep,  and  thofe  to  win  the  land. 
With  mutual  blood  th'  Aufonian  foil  is  dy'd. 
While  on  its  borders  each  their  claim  decide,  49^ 

As  wintery  winds,  contending  in  the  fky. 
With  equal  force  of  lungs  their  titles  try: 
They  rage,  they  roar;  the  doubtful  rack  of  heaven 
Stands  without  motion,  and  the  tide  undriven : 
Each  bent  to  conquer,  neither  fide  to  yield;  j[oo 

They  long  fufpend  the  fortune  of  the  field. 
Both  armies  thus  perform  what  courage  can ; 
Foot  fet  to  foot,  and  mingled  man  to  man. 

But  in  another  part,  th'  Arcadian  horfe. 
With  ill-fuccefs  engage  the  Latin  force,  ^-o^ 

Y  3  For 


3i6  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

For  where  th'  impetuous  torrent,  ruihing  down,  ' 

Huge  craggy  ftones,  and  rooted  trees  had  thrown^^ 

They  left  their  courfers,  and,  unus'd  to  fight 

On  foot,  were  fcatter'd  in  a  ihameful  flight. 

Pallas,  who  with  difdain  and  grief  had  view'd        510 

His  foes  purfuing,  and  his  friends  purfu"d, 

Us'd  threatnings  mix'd  with  prayers,  his  laft  refource; 

With  thefe  to  move  their  minds,  with  thofe  to  fire  their 

force. 
\^'hich  way,  companions !  whither  would  you  run  ? 
Ey  you  yourfelves,  and  mighty  battles  won;  515 

By  my  great  fire,  by  his  eftablifh'd  name. 
And  early  promife  of  my  future  fame  3 
By  my  youth  emulous  of  equal  right. 
To  Ihare  his  honours,  fhun  ignoble  flight. 
Trufl  not  your  feet;  your  hands  mull  hew  your  way 
Through  yon  black  body,  and  that  thick  array : 
'Tis  through  that  forward  path  that  we  muft  come: 
There  lies  our  way,  and  that  our  palTage  home, 
Kor  powers  above,  nor  deftinies  below,  T 

Opprefs  our  arms;  with  equal  lirength  we  go;     525  l 
With  mortal  hands  to  meet  a  mortal  foe.  J 

See  on  v,hat  foot  we  ftand":  a  fcanty  fliorei 
The  fea  behind,  our  enemies  before : 
No  paflage  left,  unlefs  we  fwim  the  main ; 
Or,  forcing  thefe,  the  Trojan  trenches  gain.  530 

This  faid,  he  ftrode  with  eager  hafte  along. 
And  bore  amidft  the  thickeft  of  the  throng, 
Lagus,  the  firft  he  met,  with  fate  to  foe. 
Had  heav'd  a  ftone  of  mighty  weight  to  throw ; 

Stooping, 


^  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    X.  317 

Stooping,  the  fpear  defcended  on  his  chine,  53  j; 

Juft  where  the  bone  diftinguifh'd  either  loin: 
It  ftuck  fo  fall,  fo  deeply  bury'd  lay. 
That  fcarce  the  vidor  forc'd  the  fteel  away, 

Hifbon  came  on,  but  while  he  mov'd  too  flow 
To  wifii'd  revenge,  the  prince  prevents  his  blowj  ^-40 
For,  warding  his  at  once,   at  once  he  prefs'd; 
And  plungd  the  fatal  weapon  in  his  bread. 
Then  lev.d  Anchemolus  he  laid  in  duft, 
Who  ftain'd  his  ftepdam's  bed  with  impious  luft. 
And  after  him  the  Daunian  twins  were  flain,  54^; 

X.aris  and  Thimbrus,  on  the  Latian  plain  : 
So  wondrous  like  in  feature,  fhape,  and  fize. 
As  caus'd  an  error  in  their  parents'  eyes. 
Grateful  miftake!  but  foon  the  fword  decides 
The  nice  diftinftion,  and  their  fate  divides.  550 

For  Thimbrus'  head  was  lopp'd:  and  Laris'  hand, 
Difmember'd,  fought  its  owner  on  the  ftrand : 
The  trembling  fingers  yet  the  fauchion  ftrain. 
And  threaten  ftill  th*  intended  ftroke  in  vain. 

Now,  to  renew  the  charge,  th'  Arcadians  caraeM 
Sight  of  fuch  adls,  and  (cuCq  of  honeft  fhame,  > 

And  grief,  with  anger  mix'd,  their  minds  inflame.  J 
Then  with  a  cafual  blow  was  Rhceteus  flain. 
Who  chanc'd,  as  Pallas  threw,  to  crofs  the  plain! 
The  flying  fpear  was  after  Ilus  fent,  560 

But  Rhacteus  happen'd  on  a  death  unmeant: 
From  Teuthras  and  from  Tyrus  while  he  fled, 
The  lance,  athwart  his  body,  laid  him  dead, 

Y  4  Roll'd 


3i8  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Roird  from  his  chariot  with  a  mortal  wound. 

And  intercepted  fate,  he  fpurn'd  the  ground.  565 

As,  when  in  fummer  welcome  winds  arife. 
The  watchful  fhepherd  to  the  foreft  flies. 
And  fires  the  midmoft  plants ;  contagion  fpreads. 
And  catching  flames  infect  the  neighbouring  heads; 
Around  the  foreil  flies  the  furious  blaft,  57<^1 

And  all  the  leafy  nation  fmks  at  iaft ;  > 

And  Vulcan  rides  in  triumph  o'er  the  wafte;  J 

The  paftor,  pleas'd  with  his  dire  victory, 
Beholds  the  fatiate  flames  in  iheets  afcend  the  fky  : 
So  Pallas'  troops  their  fcatter'd  ftrength  unite;        575' 
And,  pouring  on  their  foes,  their  prince  delight, 

Halefus  came,  fierce  with  defire  of  blood 
(But  firft  collefted  in  his  arms  he  ftoody; 
Advancing  then  he  ply'd  the  fpear  fo  well, 
Ladon,  Demodochus,  and  Pheres,  fell:  580 

Around  his  head  he  tofs'd  his  glittering  brand. 
And  from  Strymonius  hew"d  his  better  hand. 
Held  up  to  guard  his  throat :  then  huri'd  a  ftone 
At  Thoas'  ample  front,  and  pierc*d  the  bone; 
It  ftruck  beneath  the  fpace  of  either  eye,  5S5 

And  blood,  and  mingled  brains,  together  fly» 
Deep  fldll'd  in  future  fates,  Halefus'  fire 
Did  with  the  youth  to  lonely  groves  retire; 
But,  when  the  father's  mortal  race  was  run. 
Dire  Deftiny  laid  hold  upon  the  fon,  590 

And  haul'd  him  to  the  war :  to  find  beneath  *■ 
Til'  Evandiian  fpear  a  memorable  death* 

Pallas 


^  N  E  I  S.      BOOK    X.  s-9 

Pallas  th'  encounter  feeks ;  but,  ere  he  throws. 

To  Tufcan  Tiber  thus  addrefs'd  his  vows  : 

O  facred  ftream,  direft  my  flying  dart,  595 

And  give  to  pafs  the  proud  Halefus'  heart : 

His  arms  and  fpoils  thy  holy  oak  {hall  bear, 

Pleas'd  with  the  bribe,  the  god  receiv'd  his  prayer ; 

For,  while  his  fhield  protects  a  friend  diftrefs'd. 

The  dart  came  driving  on,  and  pierc'd  his  breafl.   6c 3 

But  Laufus,  no  fmall  portion  of  the  war. 
Permits  not  panick  fear  to  reign  too  far, 
Caus'd  by  the  death  of  fo  renown'd  a  knieht: 
But  by  his  own  example  cheats  the  fight. 
Pierce  Abas  firft  he  flew;  Abas,  the  Hay  6c ^ 

Of  Trojan  hopes,  and  hindrance  of  the  day. 
The  Phrygian  troops  efcap'd  the  Greeks  in  vain. 
They,  and  their  mix'd  allies,  now  load  the  plain. 
To  the  rude  fhock  of  war  both  armies  came. 
The  leaders  equal,  and  their  llrength  the  fame.       610 
The  rear  fo  prefs'd  the  front,  they  could  not  wield 
Their  angry  weapons,  to  difpute  the  field. 
Here  Pallas  urges  on,  and  Laufus  there,  "» 

Of  equal  youth  and  beauty  both  appear,  l 

But  both  by  Fate  forbid  to  breathe  their  native  air.  j 
Their  congrefs  in  the  field  great  Jove  withftands. 
Both  doom'd  to  fall,  but  fall  by  greater  hands. 

Mean  time  Juturna  warns  the  Daunian  chief 
Of  Laufus'  danger,  urging  fwift  relief. 
With  his  driven  chariot  he  divides  the  crowd,        620 
And,  making  to  his  friends,  thus  calls  aloud: 

Let 


330  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

Let  none  prefume  his  needlefs  aid  to  join; 

Retire,  and  clear  the  field,  the  fight  is  mine: 

To  this  right  hand  is  Pallas  only  due: 

Oh  were  his  father  here  my  juft  revenge  to  view!    625 

From  the  forbidden  fpace  his  men  retir'd, 

Pallas  their  awe  and  his  flern  words  admir'd, 

Survey'd  him  o'er  and  o"er  with  wondering  fight, 

Struck  with  his  haughty  mien,  and  towering  height. 

Then  to  the  king;  your  empty  vaunts  forbear;       630 

Succefs  I  hope,  and  Fate  I  cannot  fear. 

Alive  or  dead,  I  (hall  deferve  a  name: 

Jove  is  impartial,  and  to  both  the  fame. 

He  faid,  and  to  the  void  advanc'd  his  pace; 

Pale  horror  fate  on  each  Arcadian  face.  6^^ 

Then  Turnus,  from  his  chariot  leaping  light, 

Addrefs'd  himfelf  on  foot  to  fingle  fight. 

And,  as  a  lion,  when  he  fpies  from  far 

A  bull  that  feems  to  meditate  the  w'ar. 

Bending  his  neck,  and  fpurning  back  the  fand,       640 

Runs  roaring  downward  from  his  hilly  ftand : 

Imagine  eager  Turnus  not  more  flow. 

To  rufh  from  high  on  his  unequal  foe. 

Young  Pallas,  when  he  faw  the  chief  advance 
Within  due  diilance  of  his  flying  lance,  645 

Prepares  to  charge  him  firfi:,  refolv'd  to  try 
If  Fortune  would  his  want  of  force  fupply; 
And  thus  to  Heaven  and  Hercules  addrefs'd : 
Alcides,  once  on  earth  Evander's  gueft. 
His  fon  adjures  you  by  thofe  holy  rites,  650 

That  hofpiiable  board,  thofe  genial  nights; 

Affift 


^NEIS.     BOOK    X.  531 

Afnii  my  great  attempt  to  gain  this  prize. 

And  let  proud  Turnus  vieu',  with  dying  eyes. 

His  ravifh'd  fpoils.     'Twas  heard,  the  vain  requeil; 

Alcides  mourn 'd ;  and  ftifled  iighs  within  his  brealt. 

Then  Jove,  to  footh  his  lorrow,  thus  began:  ~i 

Short  bounds  of  life  are  fet  to  mortal  man  3  ^ 

'Tis  virtue's  work  alone  to  ftretch  the  narrow  fpan.  J 

So  many  fons  of  gods  in  bloody  fight. 

Around  the  walls  of  Troy,  have  loft  the  light :       660 

My  own  Sarpedon  fell  beneath  his  foe, 

Kor  I,  his  mighty  fire,  could  ward  the  blow. 

Ev'n  Turnus  fhortly  fhall  refign  his  breath; 

And  ftands  already  on  the  verge  of  death. 

This  faid,  the  god  permits  the  fatal  fight,  66^ 

But  from  the  Latian  fields  averts  his  fight. 

Now  with  full  force  his  fpear  young  Pallas  threw; 
And,  having  thrown,  his  fhining  fauchion  drew : 
The  fteel  juft  graz'd  along  the  fhoulder  joint. 
And  mark'd  it  llightly  with  the  glancing  point.      670 
Fierce  Turnus  firft  to  nearer  diftance  drew. 
And  pois'd  his  pointed  fpear  before  he  threw: 
Then,  as  the  winged  weapon  whizz'd  along. 
See  now,  faid  he,  whofe  arm  is  better  ftrung. 
The  fpear  kept  on  the  fatal  courfe,  unftay'd  6'^ 

By  plates  of  iron,  which  o  er  the  fhield  were  laid : 
Through  folded  brafs  and  tough  bull-hides  it  pafs'd^ 
His  crofiet  pierc'd,  and  reach'd  his  heart  at  laft. 
In  vain  the  youth  tugs  at  the  broken  wood. 
The  foul  comes  iifuing  with  the  vital  blood;  6S0 

He 


3S2  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

He  falls;  his  arms  upon  his  body  found; 

And  with  his  bloody  teeth  he  bites  the  ground. 

Turnus  beftrode  the  corpfe :  Arcadians  hear. 
Said  he;  my  meflage  to  your  mailer  bear: 
Such  as  the  lire  deferv'd,  the  fon  I  fend:  6%^ 

It  cofts  him  dear  to  be  the  Phrygians'  friend. 
The  lifelefs  body,  tell  him,  I  beftow, 
Unafk'd,  to  reft  his  wandering  ghoft  below. 
He  faid,  and  trampled  down  with  all  the  force 
Of  his  left  foot,  and  fpurn'd  the  wretched  corfe :     69  ) 
Then  fnatch'd  the  fhining  belt,  with  gold  inlaid ; 
The  belt  Eurytion"s  artful  hands  had  made: 
Where  fifty  fatal  brides,  exprefs'd  to  fight,  t 

All,  in  the  compafs  of  one  mournful  night,  > 

Deprived  their  bridegrooms  of  returning  light.    695  J 

In  an  ill  hour  infulting  Turnus  tore 
Thofe  golden  fpoils,  and  in  a  worfe  he  wore. 
O  mortals !  blind  in  fate,  who  never  know 
To  bear  high  fortune,  or  endure  the  low  I 
The  time  fhall  come,  when  Turnus,  but  in  vain,    700 
Shall  wifh  untouch'd  the  trophies  of  the  flain: 
Shall  wifh.  the  fatal  belt  were  far  away ; 
And  curfe  the  dire  remembrance  of  the  day. 
The  fad  Arcadians  from  th'  unhappy  field. 
Bear  back  the  breathlefs  body  on  a  fnield. 
O  grace  and  grief  of  war!  at  once  reftor'd 
With  praifes  to  thy  fire,  at  once  deplor'd. 
One  day  firft  fent  thee  to  the  fighting  field. 
Beheld  whole  heaps  of  foes  in  battle  kill'd ; 
One  day  beheld  ttee  dead,  and  borne  upon  th^ 

This 


i^i 


lylhieldJ 


^NEIS.     B  OOK    X.  333 

This  difmal  news,  not  from  uncertain  fame. 

But  fad  fpeftators,  to  the  hero  came  : 

His  friends  upon  the  brink  of  ruin  ftand, 

Unlefs  reliev'd  by  his  viftorious  hand. 

He  whirls  his  fword  around,  without  delay,  71  j; 

And  hews  through  adverfe  foes  an  ample  way; 

To  find  fierce  Turnus,  of  his  conqueft  proud: 

Evander,  Pallas,  all  that  friendfliip  ow'd 

To  large  deferts,_are  prefent  to  his  eyes; 

His  plighted  hand,  and  hofpitable  ties.  720 

Four  fons  of  Sulmo,  four  whom  Ufens  bred. 
He  took  in  fight,  and  living  viftims  led. 
To  pleafe  the  ghoft  of  Pallas ;  and  expire 
In  facrifice,  before  his  funeral  fire. 
At  Magus  next  he  threw :  he  ftoop'd  below  72 j; 

The  flying  fpear,  and  fhun'd  the  promis'd  blow. 
Then,  creeping,  clafp'd  the  hero's  knees,  and  pray'd ; 
By  young  lulus,  by  thy  father's  Ihade, 
O  fpare  my  life,  and  fend  me  back  to  fee 
My  longing  fire,  and  tender  progeny,  7313 

A  lofty  houfe  I  have,  and  wealth  untold. 
In  filver  ingots,  and  in  bars  of  gold  : 
Ail  thefe,  and  fums  befides,  which  fee  no  day. 
The  ranfom  of  this  one  poor  life  fhall  pay. 
If  I  furvive,  Ihall  Troy  the  lefs  prevail?  735 

A  fingle  foul's  too  light  to  turn  the  fcale. 
He  faid.     The  hero  fternly  thus  reply 'd: 
Thy  bars,  and  ingots,  and  the  fums  befide. 
Leave  for  thy  children's  lot.     Thy  Turnus  broke 
All  rules  of  war,  by  one  relentlefs  Itroke,  740 

When 


334.  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL: 

When  Pallas  fell :  fo  deems,  nor  deems  alone. 

My  father's  fhadow,  but  my  living  fon. 

Thus  having  faid,  of  kind  remorfe  bereft. 

He  feiz'd  his  helm,  and  dragg'd  him  with  his  left : 

Then  with  his  right-hand,  whilft  his  neck  he  wreath'd. 

Up  to  the  hilts  his  fhining  fauchion  flieath'd. 

Apollo's  prieft,  Ha^monides,  was  near-, 
His  holy  fillets  on  his  front  appear^ 
Glittering  in  arms  he  fhone  amidft  the  crowd ; 
Much  of  his  god,  more  of  his  purple  proud:  750 

Him  the  fierce  Trojan  follow'd  through  the  field. 
The  holy  coward  fell:   and,  forc"d  to  yield. 
The  prince  flood  o'er  the  prieft;  and  at  one  blow 
Sent  him  an  offering  to  the  fliades  below. 
His  arms  Serefthus  on  his  fhoulders  bears,  7^5 

Defign'd  a  trophy  to  the  god  of  wars. 

Vulcanian  Cseculus  renews  the  fight ; 

And  umbro  born  upon  the  mountain's  height. 

Tht  champion  chears  his  troops  t'  encounter  thofe ; 

And  feeks  revenge  himfeif  on  other  foes.  760 

At  Anxur's  fnield  he  drove,  and  at  the  blow 

Both  fliield  and  arm  to  ground  together  go, 

Anxur  had  boafted  much  of  magic  charms. 

And  thought  he  wore  impenetrable  arms; 

So  made  by  mutter'd  fpells:  and  from  the  fpheres  763 

Had  life  fecur'd  in  vain,  for  length  of  years. 

Then  Tarquitus  the  field  in  triumph  trod; 

A  nymph  his  mother,  and  his  fire  a  god. 

Exulting  in  bright  arms,  he  braves  the  prince; 

With  his  portended  lance  he  makes  defence;  770 

Beafj 


JENEIS.      BOOK    X.  335 

Bears  back  his  feeble  foe ;  then,  preffing  on, 
Arrefts  his  better  hand,  and  drags  him  down. 
Stands  o'er  the  proftrate  wretch,  and  as  he  lay. 
Vain  tales  inventing,  and  prepar'd  to  pray. 
Mows  off  his  head  J  the  trunk  a  moment  flood,        -y^ij 
Then  funk,  and  roll'd  along  the  fand  in  blood. 

The  vengeful  vidlor  thus  upbraids  the  flain ; 
Lie  there,  proud  man,  unpity'd  on  the  plain: 
Lie  there,  inglorious,  and  without  a  tomb. 
Far  from  thy  mother,  and  thy  native  home:  'ySo 

Expos'd  to  favage  beafts,  and  birds  of  prey; 
Or  thrown  for  food  to  monfters  of  the  fea. 

On  Lycas  and  Antsus  next  he  ran. 
Two  chiefs  of  Turnus,  and  v/ho  led  his  van. 
They  fled  for  fear;  with  thefe  he  chac'd  along,   785") 
Gamers  the  yellow-lock'd,  and  Numa  flrong,  l 

Both  great  in  arms,  and  both  were  fair  and  young:  J 
Gamers  was  fon  to  Volfcens  lately  flain,  1 

In  wealth  furpafling  all  the  Latian  train,  y 

And  in  Amycla  fix'd  his  flient  eafy  reign.  790  J 

And  as  ^gean,  when  with  heaven  he  flrove. 
Stood  oppofite  in  arms  to  mighty  Jove; 
Mov'd  all  his  hundred  hands,  provok'd  the  war, 
Defy'd  the  forky  lightning  from  afar: 
At  fifty  mouths  his  flaming  breath  expires,  79_j 

And  fiafli  for.flafli  returns,  and  fires  for  fires; 
In  his  right-hand  as  many  fvvords  he  wields. 
And  takes  the  thunder  on  as  many  fliields : 
With  ftrength  like  his  the  Trojan  hero  flood. 
And  foon  the  fields  with  falling  crops  were  ftrowdj 
When  once  his  fauchion  found  the  tafte  of  blood. 

With 


} 


S5«  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL; 

With  fury  fcarce  to  be  conceiv'd.  he  flev/ 
Againft  Niphasus,  whom  four  courfers  drev,'. 
They,  when  they  fee  the  fiery  chief  advance. 
And  pufhing  at  their  chefts  his  pointed  lance,  8or 

Wheel'd  with  fo  fwift  a  motion,  mad  with  fear. 
They  drew  their  mafter  headlong  from  the  chair : 
They  ftare,  they  ftart,  nor  ftop  their  courfe,  before 
They  bear  the  bounding  chariot  to  the  fhore. 

Now  Lucagus  and  Liger  fcour  the  plains,        8ioi 
With  two  white  fteeds,  but  Liger  holds  the  reins,      > 
And  Lucagus  the  lofty  feat  maintains.  J 

Bold  brethren  botkj  the  former  wav'd  in  air  t  • 

His  flaming  fword ;  ^neas  couch'd  his  fpear,  i- 

Unus'd  to  threats,  and  more  unus'd  to  fear.        815  J 
Then  Liger  thus.     Thy  confidence  is  vain 
To  'fcape  from  hence,  as  from  the  Trojan  plain : 
Nor  thefe  the  fteeds  which  DIomede  beftrode. 
Nor  this  the  chariot  where  Achilles  rede : 
Nor  Venus'  veil  is  here,  nor  Neptune's  Ihield:        Szo 
Thy  fatal  hour  is  come;  and  this  the  field. 
Thus  Liger  vainly  vaunts :  the  Trojan  peer 
Return'd  his  anfwer  with  his  flying  fpear* 
As  Lucagus  to  lafli  his  horfes  bends. 
Prone  to  the  wheels,  and  his  left  foot  protends,      Szj;' 
Frepar'd  for  flght,  the  fatal  dart  arrives. 
And  through  the  border  of  his  buckler  drives ; 
Pafs'd  through,  and  pierc'd  his  groin ;  the  deadly  wound, 
Caft  from  his  chariot,  roll'd  him  on  the  ground. 
Whom  thus  the  chief  upbraids  withfcornful  fpight;  850 
Blame  not  the  flownefs  of  your  fteeds  in  flight; 

Vain 


JEN  E  IS.     BOOK    X,  337 

Vain  {hadows  did  not  force  their  fvvift  retreat; 

But  you  yourfelf  forfake  your  empty  feat. 

He  faid,  and  feiz'd  at  once  the  loofen'd  rein 

(For  Liger  lay  already  on  the  plain  835 

By  the  fame  fhock) ;  then,  ftretching  out  his  hands. 

The  recreant  thus  his  wretched  life  demands  ; 

Now  by  thyfelf,  O  more  than  mortal  man ! 

By  her  and  him  from  whom  thy  breath  began, 

V/ho  form'd  thee  thus  divine,  I  beg  thee  fpare         840 

This  forfeit  life,  and  hear  thy  fuppliant's  prayer. 

Thus  much  he  fpoke ;  and  more  he  would  have  faid. 

But  the  ftern  hero  turn'd  afide  his  head. 

And  cut  him  fhort:  I  hear  another  man. 

You  talk'd  not  thus  before  the  fight  began ;  845" 

Now  take  your  turn :  and,  as  a  brother  fhould. 

Attend  your  brother  to  the  Stygian  flood: 

Then  through  his  bread  liis  fatal  fword  he  fent. 

And  the  foul  iffued  at  the  gaping  vent. 

As  ftorms  the  (kies,  and  torrents  tear  the  ground,    850 

Thus  rag'd  the  prince,  and  fcatter'd  deaths  around: 

At  length  Afcanius,  and  the  Trojan  train. 

Broke  from  the  camp,  fo  long  befieg'd  in  vain<, 

Meantime  the  kino-  of  o-ods  and  mortal  man 

o  O 

Held  conference  with  his  queen,  and  thus  began;    Sec 

My  fifter-goddefs,  and  well-pleafing  wife. 

Still  think  you  Venus*  aid  fupports  the  flrife ; 

Suftains  her  Trojans,  or  themfelves  alone 

With  inborn  valour  force  their  fortune  on  ? 

How  fierce  in  fight,  with  courage  undecay'dl         85o 

Judge  if  fuch  warriors  want  immortal  aid. 

Vol.  XXIII,  Z  To 


Sjg  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

To  whom  the  goddefs  with  the  charming  eyes. 

Soft  in  her  tone,  fubmiffively  replies. 

Why,  O  my  fcvereign  lord,  whofe  frown  I  fear. 

And  cannot,  unconcern'd,  your  anger  bear ;  865; 

"Why  urge  you  thus  my  grief?  when  if  I  ftill 

(As  once  I  was)  were  miftrefs  of  your  will. 

From  your  almighty  power,  your  pleaCng  wife 

Might  gain  the  grace  of  lengthening  Turnus'  life; 

Securely  fnatch  him  from  the  fatal  fight;  870 

And  give  him  to  his  aged  father's  fight. 

Kow  let  him  perifh,  fmce  you  hold  it  good. 

And  glut  the  Trojans  with  his  pious  blood. 

Yet  from  our  lineage  he  derives  his  name. 

And  in  the  fourth  degree  from  god  Pilumnus  came! 

Yet  he  devoutly  pays  you  rites  divine. 

And  offers  daily  incenfe  at  your  Ihrine. 

Then  fhortly  thus  the  fovereign  god  reply 'd; 
Since  in  my  power  and  goodnefs  you  confide; 
If  for  a  little  fpace,  a  lengthen'd  fpan,  880 

Y^ou  beg  reprieve  for  this  expiring  man : 
I  grant  you  leave  to  take  your  Turnus  hence. 
From  inftant  fate,  and  can  fo  far  difpenfe. 
But  if  fome  fecret  meaning  lies  beneath. 
To  fave  the  Ihort-liv'd  youth  from  deftin'd  death :  885 
Or  if  a  farther  thought  you  entertain. 
To  change  the  fates;  you  feed  your  hopes  in  vain. 

To  whom  the  goddefs  thus,  with  weeping  eyes: 
And  what  if  that  requeft  your  tongue  denies. 
Your  heart  fhould  grant;  and  not  a  fhort  reprieve,  890 
But  length  of  certain  life  to  Turnus  give  ? 

Now 


^NEIS.      BOOK    X.  339 

Now  fpeedy  death  attends  the  guiltlefs  youth. 

If  my  prefaging  foul  divines  with  truth. 

Which,  O!  I  wiih  might  err  through  caufelefs  fears. 

And  you  (for  you  have  power)  prolong  his  years.   89^ 

Thus  having  faid,  involv'd  in  clouds,  fhe  flies. 
And  drives  a  ftorm  before  her  through  the  (kies. 
Swift  fhe  defcends,  alighting  on  the  plain. 
Where  the  fierce  foes  a  dubious  fight  maintain. 
Of  air  condensed,  a  fpedre  foon  (he  made,  900 

And  what  JEnc^s  was,  fuch  feem'd  the  fhade. 
Adorn'd  with  Dardan  arms,  the  phantom  bore 
His  head  aloft,  a  plumy  creft  he  wore : 
This  hand  appear 'd  a  ihining  fword  to  wield. 
And  that  fuftain'd  an  imitated  fhield;  905" 

With  manly  mien  he  flalk'd  along  the  ground; 
Nor  wanted  voice  bely'd,  nor  vaunting  found 
(Thus  haunting  ghofts  appear  to  waking  fight. 
Or  dreadful  vifions  in  our  dreams  by  night). 
The  fpeclre  feems  the  Daunian  chief  to  dare,         910 
And  fiourifhes  his  empty  fword  in  air: 
At  this  advancing  Turiius  hurl'd  his  fpear; 
The  phantom  wheel'd,  and  feem'd  to  fly  for  fear. 
Deluded  Turnus  thought  the  Trojan  fled,  , 
And  with  vain  hopes  his  haughty  fancy  fed.  91^ 

Whither,  O  coward,  (thus  he  calls  aloud. 
Nor  found  he  fpoke  to  wind,  and  chac'd  a  cloud  j) 
Why  thus  forfake  your  bride!   Receive  from  me 
The  fated  land  you  fought  fo  long  by  fea. 
He  faid,  and,  brandifhing  at  once  his  blade,  920 

With  eager  pace  purfu'd  the  flying  (hade, 

Z  2  By 


l) 


34»  DRYDEN*S    VIRGIL. 

By  chance  a  fhip  was  faften'd  to  the  Ihore, 

M'hich  from  old  Clufium  king  Ofinius  bore: 

The  plank  was  ready  laid  for  fafe  afcent ; 

For  fhelter  there  the  trembling  fhadow  bent,       925 

And  fkipp'd,  and  fculk'd,  and  under  hatches  went. 

Exulting  Turnus,  with  regardlefs  hafte, 

Afcends  the  plank,  and  to  the  galley  paf-,'d. 

Scarce  had  he  reach'd  the  prow,  Saturnia's  hand 

The  haulfers  cuts,  and  fhoots  the  fhip  from  land.  930 

With  wind  in  poop,  the  vefiel  ploughs  the  fea, 

And  meafures  back  with  fpeed  her  former  way. 

Meantime  ^Eneas  feeks  his  abfent  foe. 

And  fends  his  llaughter'd  troops  to  Ihades  below. 

The  guileful  phantom  now  forfook  the  fhrowd,  955" 
And  flew  fublime,  and  vanifh'd  in  a  cloud. 
Too  late  young  Turnus  the  delufion  found. 
Far  on  the  fea,  ftill  making  from  the  ground. 
Then,  thanklefs  for  a  life  redeem'd  by  Ihame, 
With  fenfe  of  honour  Hung,  and  forfeit  fame,        940 
Fearful  befides  of  what  in  fight  had  pafs'd. 
His  hands  and  haggard  eyes  to  heaven  he  caft, 
O  Jove!  he  cry'd,  for  what  offence  have  I 
Deferv'd  to  bear  this  endlefs  infamy? 
Whence  am  I  forc'd,  and  whither  am  I  borne,        945 
How,  and  with  what  reproach  fhall  I  return! 
Shall  ever  I  behold  the  Latian  plain. 
Or  fee  Laurentum's  lofty  towers  again  ? 
What  will  they  fay  of  their  deferting  chief? 
The  war  was  mine,  I  fly  from  their  relief;  q^o 

Ikd 


iE  N  E  I  S.      B  O  0  K    X.  341 

I  led  to  {laughter,  and  in  ftaughter  leave ; 

And  ev'n  from  hence  their  dying  groans  receive. 

Here,  over-match'd  in  fight,  in  heaps  they  lie. 

There  fcatter'd  o'er  the  fields  ignobly  fly. 

Gape  wide,  O  earth!  and  draw  me  down  alive,  95  J  1 

Or,  oh,  ye  pitying  winds !  a  wretch  relieve;  >• 

On  fands  or  (helves  the  fplitting  veffel  drive:    ,        J 

Or  fet  me  Ihipwreck'd  on  fome  defert  ihore. 

Where  no  Rutulian  eyes  may  fee  me  more ; 

Unknown  to  friends,  or  foes,  or  confcious  Fame,  960 

Left  fhe  fhould  follow,  and  my  flight  proclaim ! 

Thus  Turnus  rav'd,  and  various  fates  revolv'd. 
The  choice  was  doubtful,  but  the  death  refolv'd. 
And  now  the  fword,  and  now  the  fea  took  place: 
That  to  revenge,  and  this  to  purge  difgrace.  965" 

Sometimes  he  thought  to  fwim  the  ftormy  main. 
By  flretch  of  arms  the  diftant  (hore  to  gain : 
Thrice  he  the  fword  aflfay'd,  and  thrice  the  flood; 
But  Juno,  mov'd  with  pity,  both  withftood  : 
And  thrice  reprefs'd  his  rage:  ftrong  gales  fupply'd. 
And  pufh'd  the  veffel  o'er  the  fwelling  tide. 
At  length  fhe  lands  him  on  his  native  fhores. 
And  to  his  father's  longing  arms  reftores. 

Meantime,  by  Jove's  impulfe,  Mezentius  arm'd. 
Succeeding  Turnus,  with  his  ardor  warm'd  97^ 

His  fainting  friends,  reproach'd  their  fhameful  flight,  . 
Repell'd  the  vidors,  and  renew'd  the  fight. 
Againft  their  king  the  Tufcan  troops  confpire. 
Such  is  their  hate,  and  fuch  their  fierce  defire 

Z  3  Of 


34*  DR  YD  EN'S     VIRGIL. 

Of  vvlfTi'd  revenge:  on  him,  and  him  alone,  980 

All  hands  employ'd,  and  all  their  darts  are  thrown. 
He,  like  a  folid  rock  by  feas  inclos'd. 
To  raging  winds  and  roaring  waves  oppos'd; 
From  his  proud  fummit  looking  down,  difdains 
Their  empty  menace,  and  unmov'd  remains.  985 

Beneath  his  feet  fell  haughty  Hebrus  dead, 
Tlien  Latagus ;  and  Palmus  as  he  fled : 
At  Latagus  a  weighty  ftone  he  flung. 
His  face  was  flatted,  and  his  helmet  rung. 
But  Palmus  from  behind  receives  his  wound,  990 

Hamftring'd  he  falls,  and  grovels  on  the  ground: 
His  creft  and  armour,  from  his  body  torn. 
Thy  flioulders,  Laufus,  and  thy  head  adorn, 
Evas  and  Mymas,  both  of  Troy,  he  flew, 
Mymas  his  birth  from  fair  Theano  drew :  99^ 

Born  on  that  fatal  night,  when,  big  with  fire. 
The  queen  produc'd  young  Paris  to  his  fire. 
But  Paris  in  the  Phrygian  fields  was  flain ; 
Ui^thinking  Mymus,  on  the  Latian  plain. 

And  as  a  favage  boar  on  mountains  bred,  Icco 

With  foreft:  mafl;  and  fattening  marflies  fed  ; 
When  once  he  fees  himfelf  in  toils  inclos'd. 
By  huntfmen  and  their  eager  hounds  oppos'd. 
He  whets  his  tulks,  and  turns,  and  dares  the  war; 
Th'  invaders  dart  their  javelins  from  afar;  1005 

All  keep  aloof,  and  fafely  fliout  around. 
But  none  prefumes  to  give  a  nearer  wound. 
He  frets  and  froths,  eretf^s  his  briftled  hide. 
And  fliakes  a  grove  of  lances  from  his  fide : 

Not 


^  N  E  I  S.      BOOK    X. 


345 


Not  otherwife  the  troops,  with  hate  infpir'd         loio 
And  juft  revenge,  againft  the  tyrant  fir'd; 
Their  darts  with  clamour  at  a  diftance  drive. 
And  only  keep  the  languifh'd  war  alive. 

From  Coritus  came  Acron  to  the  fight. 
Who  left  his  fpoufe  betroth'd,  and  unconfummate  night. 
Mezentius  fees  him  through  the  fquadrons  ride. 
Proud  of  the  purple  favours  of  his  bride. 
Then,  as  a  hungry  lion,  who  beholds 
A  gamefome  goat  who  frilks  about  the  folds. 
Or  beamy  Hag  that  grazes  on  the  plain;  IC20 

He  runs,  he  roars,  he  Ihakes  his  riling  mane; 
He  grins,  and  opens  wide  his  greedy  jaws. 
The  prey  lies  panting  underneath  his  paws ; 
He  fills  his  faraifh'd  maw,  his  mouth  runs  o*er 
With  unchew'd  morfels,  while  he  churns  the  gore ; 
So  proud  Mezentius  rufhes  on  his  foes. 
And  fini  unhappy  Acron  overthrows : 
Stretch'd  at  his  length,  he  fpurns  the  fwarthy  ground. 
The  lance,  befmear'd  with  blood,  lies  broken  in  diQ 
wound. 
Then  with  difdain  the  haughty  vidor  view'd     1030 
Orodes  flying,  nor  the  wretch  purfu'd: 
Nor  thought  the  daflard's  back  deferv'd  a  wound. 
But  running  gain'd  th'  advantage  of  the  ground. 
Then,  turning  fhort,  he  met  him  face  to  face. 
To  give  his  vidory  the  better  grace.  1035 

Orodes  falls,  in  equal  fight  opprefs'd: 
Mezentius  fix'd  his  foot  upon  his  breaft, 

Z  4  And 


344  DRYDEN*S    VIRGIL. 

And  reded  lance:  and  thus  aloud  he  cries, 

Lo  here  the  champion  of  my  rebels  lies. 

The  fields  around  with  lo  Vxslu  ring,  1040 

And  peals  of  fhouts  applaud  the  conquering  king. 

A.t  this  the  vanquiili'd,  with  his  dying  breath. 

Thus  faintly  fpoke,  and  prophefy'd  in  death : 

Nor  thou,  proud  man,  unpunifh'd  Ihalt  remain; 

Like  death  attends  thee  on  this  fatal  plain,  104?; 

Then,  fourly  fmiling,  thus  the  king  reply'd : 

For  what  belongs  to  me,  let  Jove  provide; 

But  die  thou  firft,  whatever  chance  enfue. 

He  faid,  and  from  the  wound  the  weaoon  drew: 

A  hovering  mill  came  fwimming  o'er  his  light,     1050 

And  feal'd  his  eyes  in  everlalling  night. 

By  Cadicus,  Alcathous  was  llain; 
Sacrator  laid  Hydafpes  on  the  plain : 
Orfes  the  ftrong  to  greater  ftrength  mull  yield  : 
He,  with  Parthenius,  were  by  Rapo  kili'd,  1055 

Then  brave  MelTapus  Ericetes  flew, 
"Who  from  Lycaon's  blood  his  lineage  drew. 
But  from  his  headftrong  horfe  his  fate  he  found,        "j 
Who  threw  his  mailer  as  he  made  a  bound  ;  > 

The  chief,  alighting,  lluckhimto  the  ground.  1060  J 
Then  Clonius  hand  in  hand,  on  foot  alTails, 
The  Trojan  fmks,  and  Neptune's  fon  prevails, 

Agis  the  Lycian,  llepping  forth  with  pride. 
To  fingle  fight  the  boldell  foe  defy'd; 
Whom  Tufcan  Valerus  by  force  o'ercame,  ic6^ 

And  not  bely'd  his  mighty  father's  fame. 

Salius 


JENEIS.      BOOK     X,  345 

Salius  to  death  the  great  Antronius  fent. 

But  the  fame  fate  the  vidor  underwent ; 

Slain  by  Ncalces'  hand,  well  fkill'd  to  throw 

The  flying  dart,  and  draw  the  far-deceiving  bow.  1070 

Thus  equal  deaths  are  dealt  with  equal  chance; 
By  turns  they  quit  their  ground,  by  turns  advance; 
Vidlors,  and  vanquifh'd,  in  the  various  field. 
Nor  wholly  overcome,  nor  wholly  yield. 
The  gods  from  lieaven  furvey  the  fatal  ftrife,         107  r 
And  mourn  the  miferies  of  human  life. 
Above  the  reft  two  goddefles  appear 
Concern'd  for  each:  here  Venus,  Juno  there: 
Aniidft  the  crowd  infernal  Ate  Ihakes 
Her  fcourge  aloft,  and  crefl:  of  hiffing  fnakes.        loSo 

Once  more  the  proud  Mezentius  with  difdain 
Brandiih'd  his  fpear,  and  rulh'd  into  the  plain : 
Where  towering  in  the  midmoft  ranks  he  flood. 
Like  tall  Orion  ftalking  o'er  the  flood: 
When  with  his  brawny  breaft  he  cuts  the  waves,  io8r 
His  Ihoulders  fcarce  the  topmoft  billow  laves. 
Or  like  a  mountain-afli,  whofe  roots  are  fpread. 
Deep  fix'd  in  earth,  in  clouds  he  hides  his  head. 

The  Trojan  prince  beheld  him  from  afar. 
And  dauntlefs  undertook  the  doubtful  war.  1090 

Colledled  in  his  ftrength,  and  like  a  rock, 
Pois"d  on  his  bafe,  Mezentius  ftood  the  fhock. 
He  ftood,  and,  meafuring  firft  with  careful  eyes 
The  fpace  his  fpear  could  reach,  aloud  he  cries; 
My  ftrong  right-hand,  and  fword,  affift  my  ftroke; 
(Thofe  only  gods  Mezentius  will  invoke] 

His 


345  DRYDEN'S     VIRGIL. 

His  armour,  from  the  Trojan  pirate  torn. 

By  my  triumphant  Laufns  fhall  be  worn. 

He  faid,  and  with  his  utmoft  force  he  threw 

The  maffy  fpear,  which,  hiiTmg  as  it  flew,  1 1  oo 

Reach'd  the  celeftial  fhield  that  ftopp'd  the  courfe; 

But  glancing  thence,  the  yet-unbroken  force 

Took  a  new  bent  obliquely,  and  betwixt 

The  fides  and  bowels  fam"d  Anthores  fix'd. 

Anthores  had  from  Argos  travell'd  far,  1105 

Alcides'  friend,  and  brother  of  the  war: 

Till,  tir'd  with  toils,  fair  Italy  he  chofe. 

And  in  Evander's  palace  fought  repofe : 

Now  falling  by  another  wound,  his  eyes 

He  call  to  heaven,  on  Argos  thinks,  and  dies.      mo 

The  pious  Trojan  then  his  javelin  fent. 
The  Ihield  gave  way :  through  treble  plates  it  went 
Of  folid  brafs,  of  linen  trebly  roll'd. 
And  three  bull-hides  which  round  the  buckler  roll'd. 
All  thefe  it  pafs'd,  refiftlefs  in  the  courfe,  1 1 1  j; 

Tranfplerc'd  his  thigh,  and  fpent  its  dying  force. 
The  gaping  wound  gulh'd  out  a  crimfon  flood ; 
The  Trojan,  glad  with  fight  of  hoftile  blood. 
His  fauchion  drew,  to  clofer  fight  addrefs'd. 
And  with  new  force  his  fainting  foe  opprefs'd,      1 120 

His  father's  peril  Laufus  view'd  with  grief. 
He  ligh'd,  he  wept,  he  ran  to  his  relief: 
And  here,  heroic  youth,  'tis  here  I  muft 
To  thy  immortal  memory  be  juft  ; 
A-nd  fing  an  ad  fo  noble  and  fo  new,  1 1 25 

Poflerity  will  fcarce  believe  'tis  true. 

Pain'd 


^NEIS.     BOOK    X.  347 

Paln'd  with  his  wound,  and  ufelefs  for  the  fight. 
The  father  fought  to  fave  himfelf  by  flight: 
Incumbered,  flow  he  dragg'd  the  fpear  along,         1130 
Which  pierc'd  his  thigh,  and  in  his  buckler  hung. 
The  pious  youth,  refolv'd  on  death,  below  1 

The  lifted  fword  fprings  forth,  to  face  the  foe;  > 

Protefts  his  parent,  and  prevents  the  blow,  J 

Shouts  of  applaufe  ran  ringing  through  the  field. 
To  fee  the  fon  the  vanquifh'd  father  fliield :  1 135 

All  fir'd  with  generous  indignation  llrive ; 
And,  with  a  ftorm  of  darts,  at  diftance  drive 
The  Trojan  chief:  who,  held  at  bay  from  far. 
On  his  Vulcanian  orb  fudaia'd  the  war. 

As  when  thick  hail  comes  rattling  in  the  wind,  1 140 
The  ploughman,  paflenger,  and  labouring  hind. 
For  ftielter  to  the  neighbouring  covert  fly; 
Or  hous'd,  or  fafe  in  hollow  caverns  lie; 
But,  that  o'erblown,  when  heaven  above  them  fmiles. 
Return  to  travel,  and  renew  their  toils ;  ^  H5 

^neas,  thus  o'erwhelm'd  on  ev'ry  fide. 
The  ftorm  of  darts,  undaunted,  did  abide; 
And  thus  to  Laufus  loud  with  friendly  threatening 

cry'd : 

Why  wilt  thou  rufh  to  certain  death,  and  rage 
In  rafii  attempts,  beyond  thy  tender  age,  11 50 

Betray 'd  by  pious  love  ?  Nor  thus  forbom 
The  youth  defifts,  but  with  infulting  fcorn 
Provokes  the  lingering  prince,  whofe  patience,  tir'd. 
Gave  place,  and  all  his  breaft  with  fury  fir'd» 

For 


34«  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

For  now  the  Fates  prepar'd  their  fharpen'd  Iheers ;  1 1 55; 
And  lifted  high  the  flaming  fword  appears. 
Which  full  dcfcending,  with  a  frightful  fway,  "| 

Through  fhield  and  corflet  forc'd  th'  impetuous  way,  > 
And  buried  deep  in  his  fair  bofom  lay,  J 

The  purple  ftreams  through  the  thin  armour  ftrove. 
And  drench'd  th*  embroider'd  coat  his  mother  wove; 
And  life  at  length  forfook  his  heaving  heart. 
Loth  from  fo  fweet  a  manfion  to  depart. 

But  when,  with  blood  and  palenefs  all  o'erfpread. 
The  pious  prince  beheld  young  Laufus  dead ;         1 1 65 
He  griev'd,  he  wept,  the  light  an  image  brought 
Of  his  own  filial  love;  a  fadly  pleafing  thought! 
Then  ftretch'd  his  hand  to  hold  him  up,  and  faid. 
Poor  haplefs  youth !  what  praifes  can  be  paid 
To  love  fo  great,  to  fuch  tranfcendent  ftore  1 170 

Of  early  worth,  and  fure  prefage  of  more ! 
Accept  whatever  ^neas  can  afford : 
XJntouch'd  thy  arms,  untaken  be  thy  fword! 
And  all  that  pleas'd  thee  living,  ftill  remain 
Inviolate,  and  facred  to  the  flain!  i^7> 

Thy  body  on  thy  parents  I  bellow. 
To  reft  thy  foul,  at  leaft  if  (hadows  know, 
Or  have  a  fenfe  of  human  things  below. 
There  to  thy  fellow-ghofts  with  glory  tell, 
'Twas  by  the  great  Eneas'  hand  I  fell.  1 1 80 

With  this  his  difcant  friends  he  beckons  near. 
Provokes  their  duty,  and  prevents  their  fear; 
Himfelf  afiift  to  lift  him  from  the  ground. 
With  clotted  locks,  and  blood  that  well'd  from  out  the 
wound. 

Mean 


} 


-ffi  N  E  I  S.      B  O  O  K    X.  349 

Mean  time  his  father,  now  no  father,  flood,     1 1 8_j 
And  wafli'd  his  wounds  by  Tiber's  yellow  flood : 
Opprefs'd  with  anguifli,  panting,  and  o  erfpent. 
His  fainting  limbs  againft  an  oak  he  leant. 
A  bough  his  brazen  helmet  did  fuftain. 
His  heavier  arms  lay  fcatter'd  on  the  plain:  1190 

A  chofen  train  of  youth  around  him  ftand. 
His  drooping  head  was  refled  on  hi^  hand: 
His  grifly  beard  his  penfive  bofom  fought. 
And  all  on  Laufus  ran  his  refllefs  thought. 
Careful,  concern'd  his  danger  to  prevent,  '  I9f 

He  much  enquir'd,  and  many  a  meflage  fent 
To  warn  him  from  the  field :  alas !  in  vain ; 
Behold  his  mournful  followers  bear  him  flain ; 
O'er  his  broad  fliield  fliil  gufli'd  the  yawning  wound. 
And  drew  a  bloody  trail  along  the  ground,  1 20C1 

Far  off  he  heard  their  cries,  far  off  divin'd 
The  dire  event  with  a  foreboding  mind. 
With  duft  he  fprinkled  firft  his  hoary  head,  -» 

Then  both  his  lifted  hands  to  heaven  he  fpread ;         j> 
Laft  the  dear  corpfe  embracing,  thus  he  fald :    1 205  J 
What  joys,  alas!  could  this  frail  being  give. 
That  I  have  been  fo  covetous  to  live? 
To  fee  my  fon,  and  fuch  a  fon,  refign 
His  life  a  ranfom  for  preferving  mine  ? 
And  am  I  then  preferv'd,  and  art  thou  loft?  1210 

How  much  too  dear  has  that  redemption  coft! 
■'Tis  now  my  bitter  banifliment  I  feel ; 
This  is  a  wound  to  deep  for  time  to  heal. 

My 


S50  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

My  guilt  thy  growing  virtues  did  defame. 

My  blacknefs  blotted  thy  unblemilh'd  name.  1215 

Chac'd  from  a  throne,  abandon'd,  and  exil'd. 

For  foul  mifdeeds,  were  punifhments  too  mild : 

I  ow'd  my  people  thefe,  and  from  their  hate 

With  lefs  refentment  could  have  born  my  fate. 

And  yet  I  live,  and  yet  fuftain  the  fight  1220 

Of  hated  men,  and  of  more  hated  liq-ht: 

But  will  not  Ions'.     With  that  he  rais'd  from  p-round 

Kis  fainting  limbs  that  ftagger'd  with  his  wound. 

Yet  with  a  mind  refolv'd,  and  unappaPd 

With  pains  or  perils,  for  his  courfer  call'd :  1225* 

Well-mouth'd,well-manag'd,  whom  himfelf  did  drefs  1 

With  daily  care,  and  mounted  v.'ith  fuccefs;  \ 

His  aid  in  arms,  his  ornament  in  peace.  J 

Soothing  his  courage  with  a  gentle  ftroke. 
The  fteed  feem'd  ftnfible,  while  thus  he  fpoke:      1230 
O  Rhaebus,  we  have  liv'd  too  long  for  me 
(If  life  and  long  were  terms  that  could  agree) ; 
This  day  thou  either  (halt  bring  back  the  head 
And  bloody  trophies  of  the  Trojan  dead ; 
This  day  thou  either  fhalt  revenge  my  woe  1255 

For  murder'd  Laufus,  on  his  cruel  foe; 
Or,  if  inexorable  Fate  deny 
Our  conqueft,  with  thy  conquer'd  mader  die : 
For,  after  fuch  a  lord,  I  reft  fecure,  1239 

Thou  wilt  no  foreign  reins,  or  Trojan  load,  endure. 
He  faid:  and  ftraieht  th'  officious  courfer  kneels 
To  take  his  wonted  weight.     His  hands  he  fills 

With 


J5:  N  E  I  S.     B  O  O  K    X.  351 

With  pointed  javelins :  on  his  head  he  lac'd 
His  glittering  helm,  which  terribly  was  grac'd 
With  waving  horfe-hair,  nodding  from  afar;         1245 
Then  fpurr"d  his  thundering  fteed  amidft  the  war. 
Love,  anguifh,  wrath,  and  grief,  to  madnefs  wrought, 
Defpair,  and  fecret  fhame,  and  confcious  thought 
Of  inborn  worth,  his  labouring  foul  opprefs'd, 
Roll'd  in  his  eyes,  and  rag'd  within  his  breafl,      1250 
Then  loud  he  call'd  .^neas  thrice  by  name. 
The  loud  repeated  voice  to  glad  ^neas  came. 
Great  Jove,  he  faid,  and  the  far-fhooting  god, 
Infpire  thy  mind  to  make  thy  challenge  good. 
He  fpoke  no  more,  but  haften'd,  void  of  fear,       1 2j^ 
And  threaten "d  with  his  long  protended  fpear. 

To  whom  Mezentius  thus :  Thy  vaunts  are  vain. 
My  Laufus  lies  extended  on  the  plain : 
He's  loft!  thy  conqueft  is  already  won. 
The  wretched  fire  is  murder 'd  in  the  fon.  1260 

Kor  fate  I  fear, .  but  all  tke  gods  defv,  ^ 

Forbear  thy  threats,  my  bufinefs  is  to  die;  > 

But  firft  receive  this  parting  legacy.  J 

He  faid  :  and  ftraight  a  whirling  dart  he  fent: 
Another  after,  and  another  went.  126^ 

Round  in  a  fpacious  ring  he  rides  the  field. 
And  vainly  plies  th'  impenetrable  fliield : 
Thrice  rode  he  round,  and  thrice  iEneas  wheel'd 
Tum'd  as  he  turn'd;  the  golden  orb  withftood 
The  ftrokes;  and  bore  about  an  iron  wood,  1270 

Impatient  of  delay,  and  weary  grown. 
Still  to  defend,  and  to  defend  alone : 

5  To 


} 


351  DRYDEN'S    VIRGIL. 

To  wrenck  the  darts  which  in  his  buckler  light, 

Urg'd  and  o'erlabour'd  in  unequal  jfight : 

At  length  refolv'd,  he  throws  with  all  his  force     127^ 

Full  at  the  temples  of  the  warrior-horfe. 

Juft  where  the  ftroke  was  aim'd,  th'  unerring  fpear 

Made  way,  and  flood  transfix'd  through  either  ear. 

Seiz'd  with  unwonted  pain,  furpriz'd  with  fright. 

The  wounded  lleed  curvets j  and,  rais'd  upright,  12S0 

Lights  on  his  feet  before;  his  hoofs  behind 

Spring  up  in  air  aloft,  and  lafli  the  wind. 

Down  comes  the  rider  headlong  from  his  height. 

His  horfe  came  after  with  unwieldy  weight; 

And,  floundering  forward,  pitching  on  his  head,  128^ 

His  lord's  incumbered  fhoulder  overlaid. 

From  either  holl  the  mingled  fhouts  and  cries 

Of  Trojans  and  Rutulians  rend  the  Ikies. 

jEneas,  haftening,  wav'd  his  fatal  fword 

High  o'er  his  head,  with  this  reproachful  word:   1290 

Now,  where  are  now  thy  vaunts,  the  fierce  difdain 

Of  proud  Mezentius,  and  the  lofty  flrain  ? 

Struggling,  and  wildly  flaring  on  the  &ies. 
With  fcarce  recover'd  light,  he  thus  replies : 
V/hy  thefe  infulting  words,  this  wafle  of  breath,  i  ig^ 
To  fouls  undaunted,  and  fecure  of  death? 
'Tis  no  difhonour  for  the  brave  to  die. 
Nor  came  I  here  with  hope  of  vi(^ory. 
Nor  afk  I  life,  nor  fought  with  that  defign: 

As  I  had  us'd  my  fortune,  ufe  thou  thine,  1500 

My  dying  fon  contracted  no  fuch  band; 
The  gift  is  hateful  from  his  murderer's  hand. 

For 


JEN  E  IS,     BOOK    X,  ^55 

For  this,  this  only  favour  let  me  fue ; 
If  pity  can  to  conquer'd  foes  be  due, 
Refufe  it  not:  but  let  my  body  have  '30^ 

The  laft  retreat  of  human-kind,  a  grave. 
Too  well  I  know  th*  infulting  people's  hatej 
Proteft  me  from  their  vengeance  after  fate ; 
This  refuge  for  my  poor  remains  provide. 
And  lay  my  rauch-lov'd  Laufus  by  my  fide.      131  o 
He  faid,  and  to'  the  throat  his  fword  apply'd. 
The  crimfon  ftream  diftain'd  his  arms  around. 
And  the  difdainfui  foul  came  rulhing  through  the 
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CONTENTS 

OF      THE 
TWENTY-THIRD    VOLUME. 

The^NEis,  BookIL  -  Page     i 

III.  -  40 

IV.  -  .74 

V.  -  -  no 

VI.  .  -  151 

VII.  -         -       195 

VIII.  -  -  234 

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